It’s kinda funny how quickly I recover from depressions now adays, I’ve almost got it down to a science. I just worked on some assignments in advance, and got the sweet sweet dopamine hit and back to feeling like life is manageable. Kinda funny how since being conditioned into it as a child the main way I feel pleasure is completing assignments, but hey it works out nice and probably will work nice for the coming 6 years of school.
Either way I’m glad I’m feeling fine again; thank you for all the support I received from friends, both from this blog and just from reaching out. I’m glad I have you all.
I often worry that my friends won’t like me (or even less so) if they see me while I’m depressed. It leads to me self isolating, and straying away from friends when I am struggling, and often these unresolved feelings get put as either a discord status or as a blog post now. These are my cries for help, as I so desperately want someone to reach out to me when they see them, and ultimately tell me that they accept me for who I am, depression and all.
I can’t really think of any benefits to a friend having depression, but it sure comes with negatives. This feels like a fact of life to me, and so I desperately hide my depression in the public eye. I constantly will make cries for help, hoping people see it and reach out and ask “hey, are you ok?” yet at the same time I so violently fear it.
Claire, if you are reading this don’t worry about reaching out to me. You’ve been an incredible friend, I’m so glad I met you, and I wish I had more friends like you; you’ve been the gold standard of kinds of friends I’d like more of. I don’t want to put pressure on you to reach out, and since you’re the only person who occasionally reads this I hope you don’t feel like this is me asking you to.
I often think that depression is one of the worst enemies, as its your own brain actively fighting you. It’s hard to change your mindset when your own mind wants to hurt you.
I was struggling on how to put this in to words, but one way of saying how I’ve been feeling is like the Cm7 chord. While typically the C chord is X32010, Cm7 is X32000; a one step difference. While the C chord normally sounds like a happy ending, a clean warm resolution, the one minor note on the B string adds a question mark to the end.
Cm7 is the end of a day out with friends, of great times, but the ending feeling of sadness when sitting at home at night. Not because the night wasn’t fun, or that you’re sad its over, but rather because you still ultimately feel sad. It’s almost a question, on why you did everything right but you still come back to the baseline of being sad.
Cm7 is treating yourself to one of your favorite foods, and then not enjoying it. The food is the same, it still tastes nice, but it doesn’t make you happy.
Cm7 is the feeling of winning a tournament, and the second the adrenaline of the final seconds wears off, the sobering realization you still are sad.
If C is a smile at the end of a happy memory, Cm7 is the reminder of the baseline sadness you bear, and how all of this effort was for waste; as it all just becomes a memory to be forgotten. It’s a happy shell, with a somber aftertaste.
I’ve spent time with friends, I’ve played games that I normally enjoy, I ate some of my favorite foods, but at the end of the day the B string lingers; all I’m left with is the feeling of confusion and apathy, being worried on why I’m falling back into this spiral when I’ve done nothing wrong.
Holy shit. I think everyone sees this show at first and writes it off as a fanservice show, but this was an incredible coming of age anime, and an incredibly sweet, healthy romance. I do have things I want to say about the show, but what I wanted to post about was the movie in specific.
For context, the last time I cried was when Tonia ghosted me a year ago; and I just cried 3x during the movie. The movie itself was incredibly bitter sweet, and was a continuation of season 1. But ultimately, I think the thing that really struck me to my core was how much Mai loves Sakuta. I’m just overall love-deprived due to childhood, so seeing someone love Sakuta that much cut me to my core. Typically I’m used to empathizing with feelings of love for other characters during romance shows, but to see someone love you mutually back similarly if not more, that got me. I think its easy for me to forget that love should be a mutual feeling, and the movie really does capture my definition of love: when someone is willing to do something that is strictly bad for them, in the interest of benefiting someone they love.
One other thing that really struck me was one of the main characters saying how they want to be a kinder person every day. I think it’s easy to get by day to day without any sort of goal, and to just go through the motions. But I think it’s important to constantly strive to be a better, kinder person. I’d like to be kind to the people around me more, as my favorite quote goes: “The world is not kind, therefore we must be kind in its place.”
Right now Hash is being a little deviant and he’s sitting on my bed trying to take the covers off (and succeeding). I’m glad to have him as my friend, I can always rely on him to be silly, and also care for me at the same time. I should really cherish him a lot more, I’m so glad that I have him; I’m sure he’s glad he has me too.
I think if younger me could see me now, I would be so happy with the things I surround myself with, and so even though I’ve progressively gotten used to it I want to be thankful for the amazing life I have.
So every year Gaucho Gaming hosts a LAN tournament, and I haven’t gone since my first year. Some friends convinced me, so I decided to sign up; the only issue is the prizes for League of Legends is absolute dog water. However, Valorant has corsair as a sponsor with nice prizes, so I decided to sign up.
For context, I had only played valorant for less than 10 hours before in my life, back in the alpha. I ended up playing my ranked games, and got placed bronze 2 (5th lowest rank). After grinding some ranked with a friend, we worked our way down to iron 3 (3rd lowest rank). Now here comes the gambit: teams for the tournament are balanced around rank, so since I’m one of the worst ranks in the game, I should get absolutely GOATED teammates. If I can just try to learn as much as I can to be useful for my team, I think I have a decent chance at making it to the finals, since the top 2 out of the 6 teams will win a prize. The gambit starts at 5pm.
While skating to a class, I saw a girl with very pretty light blue hair and a punk rock aesthetic, and I complimented her on it. She said “thank you” but refused to make eye contact, and I thought it was weird till I realized that this was the person I had my first time with. I think it’s an almost liberating thing to be able to drastically change who we are in such a small span of time, I think that’s such a human trait to be proud of.