I have saved many screenshots of text conversations over the past few years. I was sifting through these today, and they made me realize what I have been working on, what I have been passing through and growing with over the course of 3 years. It is good and very healthy to put things in perspective. I often feel that I need to be farther along, at a different place in my healing process, etc. I see clearly now just how far I have come. These thoughts are still present, some of them make up the core of my being and illness has merely heightened their presence. On the other hand, some seem almost frozen over in their place and might trickle out very slowly as rebirth unfolds. Maybe in this lifetime they won’t fully do so, perhaps the process will carry over… and over… and …





