Here's To The...

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 Here's to the next six months. May they be better than the first six. 

  Or at least better than the last two. I feel like that was the start of my burnout. Maybe more than the last two. Either way, it has been a long burnout. Do I foresee it being done any time soon? Maybe. Depends on what happens the rest of this month. I have a bit to do this month, so I want to see what happens afterwards. 

  And here's to the next six months just being better in general. After being by myself for the last few weeks, I've realized how crazy online life is for me, let alone offline life. Being around people who just think so wildly about the most mundane things always puzzles me. Mountains out of anthills. Not even molehills! But hey, I can see how people feel the need to make their life more exciting to others, so they make mountains out of their little anthills. Or how big something feels to others when it happens. I realize that a lot of things that hit people hard and knock the wind out of them just don't do that for me. So I just let the space exist while I go about my life. I don't get myself involved in it. 

  Hopefully, for the next six months, I will be resting and recuperating enough to return to some sort of online presence. At this point, I'm not sure I want to, given the current "weather" of how the internet is, but I will decide on that closer to the time I want to return. Until then, you will probably only hear from me through blog posts if you don't know me outside of the online world. Given the little energy I have, let alone staying out of spaces where I feel my presence will not mingle well with the energy of the space. I may appear in random chats of certain livestreams, especially for certain people in my gaming and spiritual communities. It will honestly just depend on how much energy I have those days.


  I will ask everyone to not be too worried for me, especially those that really only know me online. I am doing about as well as I can for someone in the (hopeful) tail end of burn out. I am trying some new things to get some sort of energy and stability back into my life so I have energy to give back to others.

Love and Strength,

Ani

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