i was just going through some old messages that are still in my inbox on here, and wow. i used to live on this website. it was my safe space, and still kind of is. my life is a lot different than when i was super active on here. it's kind of crazy. i was just looking at my blog via url and i have an about my on their that i haven't updated since i was 19. back then, i had just dropped out of college and was probably in the worst period of my life. i was ruining everything for myself left and right, i got really into drinking and drugs. i blew up every single friendship i had, i was in a downward spiral-- in a very dangerous way.
now i'm 24 and i still haven't gone back to college. i at one point had a 6 month depressive episode after getting fired where i did absolutely nothing but play mario cart and drink and and do drugs. i've had 3 different jobs. i'm now in a job i really like, but not a forever job. i'm seriously considering going back to college. i'm sober. i have a lot more tattoos, some of which happened during that depressive episode, haha. i realized that i'm nonbinary, which explains a lot of the masking my feelings with drugs and alcohol now that i can think about it. i'm mentally in a really good place, at least comparatively to my teenage years and very early 20s. i'm proud of the progress i made.
i can also now look back on the time i spent on this app and as weird or cheesy as it sounds, without a lot of the people on here i probably wouldn't have made it through my teen years. i had a community on her that was really unlike any other. i wasn't the most social person on here but the messages i would get when i treated this blog like a diary telling me that what i was feeling was okay, that the hard things would pass, really encouraged me. this place helped me to realize i was very much not straight, exposing me to things i never would have been exposed to otherwise; for better and for worse. i was able to have a place to talk about the things i truly cared about and no one made fun of my obsession with teen wolf or degrassi or any of the other fandoms i was in. people on here understood me in a way that i don't think anyone in my real world did.
i don't know, i'm just having feeling about this stupid website and my formative years, which maybe i'm still in, i'm not sure how that works, haha. but i guess what i'm trying to say is, if anyone reading this was one of those people who messaged me when i posted about being sad, or talked with me in the replies of a post about stiles stilinski, or liked my poetry, or really just interacted with me in any way, thanks. ya'll made me not feel so alone when i felt really goddamn alone. i appreciate you guys and hope you're all doing well, wherever you are out in the real world