(If you’re new to The Lorix Chronicles, you may want to read this first.)
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? In fact, it’s been over three years since I’ve written a blog post. Life got busy, and I stopped writing. And by “life got busy,” I mean life is always busy, always a bit crazy. I realized (again!) that even though life is busy and crazy, I need to write. The internet even told me that’s the career I’m meant for. How do I argue with that?
So I will write. I might even finish the novel (and I use that term loosely) I’m working on. I took a 3-year hiatus from that too.
I felt the need to write again because it’s cathartic for me, and I need something cathartic in my life right now. See, I’m still depressed. Not everyday for the last three years kind of depressed, but I have my moments. They last a week, or a month, or a couple months. I have been diagnosed with chronic depression. I told some friends from my old PPD group that I feel like I was lied to. It didn’t get better! Of course, in reality, it has gotten better, but when I spiral down More