This'll be my last time posting. No one cares, nor should they, but I'm going to blogpost a bit for my own sake. I really only logged back in to delete my account, which apparently and unsurprisingly you can't do, so this is the next best thing.
I've been doing better lately. Life went rapidly downhill about two years ago (read: when I joined this site). I hit rock bottom around December 2019, since then I've sort of stumbled around trying to find my footing. I gradually weaned myself off of here, 4chan, the like, only visiting a few times over the summer. Quarantine has been very beneficial for this actually, almost meditative. A forced break from society has done well for self-reflection. Since the last time I was here, I have had a string of tectonically life alerting events, including almost becoming a dad, almost becoming homeless (several times, thanks corona), enduring the most brutal and drawn out breakup of my life with my childhood best friend (twice! in <6 months. Fuckin idiot), and breaking off from 99% of people in my life. Weirdly, compared to rock bottom, this was for the better. For the first time in a while, my challenges were primarily external. I would've crumbled had I not spent those first months of quarantine really working out a lot of internal shit, but I feel I'm finally learning to master myself. For a change of pace, I decided to transfer to an extremely prestigious and competitive university on the other side of the country. Miraculously, I got in, but couldn't afford it. Still, I basically came to terms with being completely alone in the universe and hurtling myself into a new strange environment with no friends or family or really any support structure where I could start again. Strangely, I've come to realize I'm never truly alone, and I'm not sure why that is, but I do believe it to be true. So that's what I've been doing. I threw out a BUNCH of my shit (literally and metaphorically), got my priorities in order, and have a much stronger sense of what I want to do in life. I'm working harder than I have in a long time to support myself, do well in my studies, and graduate debt free. There is an immensely long way to go, and I've really just begun, but I've finally found my footing and I'm walking again. Leaving places like this is part of that for me. I was never really a fan of the lolcows or whatever and mainly came for the off topic threads, but there were quite a few laughs, and the cursed image threads are unparalleled, so for that I thank you. I wish well for you and those you come across, so long as you wish it upon others in turn. BB