roadrunnertwice: MPLS, MN skyline at sundown.  (Minneapolis - Sunset in the city)
I'm glad I wrote so much back when I was feeling lonely and shitty all the time, because sometimes it's nice to look back on something like this and be like "Wow, I actually got a LOT better."

I wish I'd been honest about what I was feeling more often, TBH. I had a lot of anxiety and possibly a tiny bit of depression going on, and I think I was hiding it so habitually in my interactions with others that I never fully recognized some of it myself. Maybe I could have found some more self-knowledge about it a little sooner, and then... well, who knows. I figure I didn't ever need medication or anything, but man, it would have been great to just talk about it with someone, and poor Nick didn't have enough of a clue to do that.

Anyway, happy summeriest of summer days, I'm feeling great and hope you are too, and here's a glass raised to 2005 through 2008 — four years I remember fondly and wouldn't relive at fucking gunpoint.