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I chronically journal. Of all the methods I have used to beat back the peaks and valleys of 31 very odd years, typing my thoughts into a document that no one sees but me has kept me the most sane. It's now New Year's Eve of one of the strangest, most transformative years of my life, and I want to take a moment to say thank you to the many individuals I've talked to on DU who have made that transformation enlightening.
I just reread my journal entries for 2006. Wow. I have learned so much about myself: my natural desire for freedom; my natural desire for, well, nature; my hatred of man-made convention and institutions; my love of discovering openness with complete strangers, and the kindness and love therein; the love I have for my husband, my friends, and the world about me, which helped me to cope with a bad reemergence of depression.
I have shared myself with many of you here in this forum, in one form or another, and you have shared yourselves with me. I right now, December 31, 2006, feel a sense of peace that I have not felt for months. I believe I owe much of that to many of you.
2006 was one of the oddest and saddest years I've ever endured. I will not bore you with details, but I have grown as a woman because of it. Thank you, so very much, for being one of the few bright spots. I hope 2007 brings to all of you the joys that you have brought to me.
With much sincerity,
Writer.
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