Still alive!

I feel the need to write something here because I've been sort of completely absent for a month or so, neglecting comments and other peoples' art and such!

It's because since the ~spiritual awakening~ that I wrote about in my previous post (and it really does feel like that rather than just a thought-based alteration to beliefs, or a set of hopes I want to live up to; I feel like a completely different person), my life has been changing, in a good way!

I spent the last few years hiding away from the world in my room, living online and rarely venturing out of my house... Certainly never talking to anyone in the flesh, because I didn't know anyone. I didn't talk in real-time to people on Skype or anything either. Weeks would fly by, and before I knew it a whole month or even a year would be over.

January felt like it was extremely long, though, simply because I was actually getting out into the world and doing things I would have resisted strongly before. I've actually been talking to people in person, and finding various ways to meet others who I can talk with. I don't have friends just yet, but I'm building up to that. I've had things to do, people to see, places to go... and throughout it all, I've retained a sense of inner peace that I never knew before. I'm not exactly enlightened completely just yet - I've basically just begun my 'spiritual journey' - but I see the world in a whole new light, and it's tremendously liberating.

Anyway, because of all this sudden burst of activity in the real world (which still is barely anything compared to the average person, I'm sure, but which is big and novel for me), I've been struggling to find a balance between that and online life, hence my neglect of things here! I hope to get better at finding that balance soon, though! I feel like this site offers a wonderful way to meet others with similar interests, after all, especially now that I'm not plagued by the sort of negativity that made me repellent or reclusive in the past.