I went through the archives of this blog and just wow.. 11 years of writing poetry, making art,…

I went through the archives of this blog and just wow.. 11 years of writing poetry, making art, posting photography and just being able to call this place my safe haven. It’s incredible how much of an impact this site has had on me, my writing and just my overall mental wellbeing. Being able to be open.. to be myself on here has saved me many, many times. There’s something beautiful about being able to go back a decade and see how I felt all those years ago. Today I was thinking about the past.. remembering it for something that it wasn’t because Spring is in the air.. and I was able to go back on this blog and remind myself that nostalgia is so cruel and nothing that I purposely left in the past is something I should desire ever again. I think I’m going to keep doing that.. I’m going to keep using this decade old diary as a way to remind myself that I am better than I was back then. That I suffered, made it through and am alive to tell the tale. I’ve been able to immortalize my own experiences, and there’s something so beautiful about that.