A Joyful Return
I started this blog when I was 19 years old, nearly five years ago as an outlet after walking through many emotional and challenging life circumstances. I had just finished my first year of college and gotten out of an unhealthy relationship, both bringing a slew of other difficulties along with them. On top of it all the world was in a state of medical and political panic as the global pandemic was at its height. I remember sitting on the back porch of my parent's house during quarantine with my beloved dog Annie, who has since passed, grappling with all the unprocessed things in my mind. I found myself opening my computer, shockingly for something other than online school, and I began writing about my life. Many of those stories, ideas, and ramblings never made it onto this blog. At the time I did not know I was writing a blog, I was just writing my stories in a digital form as a way for my mind to process the world around me. After writing about my Night to Shine experience, w...