Always happy to have you pondering!
Maybe I don't need consistency; maybe I wouldn't be having such conversations with myself if I could better afford my life in this inflationary world. But the bills arrive with a great deal of consistency and don't really care whether I'm in an "on" period or an "off" period. So now I sort of have to care, in a way I didn't previously.
Hive and writing is just a representation of broader life, though...