Well hello again, The Internet! Fancy meeting you here again, after all these years. It's been a while - more than a decade. 12 years, plus a few months, in fact! It's been a bit discomforting, finding this time capsule, revisiting records of my life as an anxiety-riddled lizard in human skin. Suddenly being reminded, after nearly a decade, of all of my own fears, all the stupid turmoil and the constant cacophony of buzzing between my ears netted as best I could manage in whatever vocabulary I managed to summon in some public journal for the whole world to see, well... It caught me a bit off guard. But it turns out, as I can see just from the distance between myself from that moment to now, it does get easier after all. What is "it" exactly I couldn't tell you, But even as the rest of this late-stage capitalist hellscape seems to conspire to make every facet of life more and more difficult, I assure you, it does certainly get easier. Or at least it has done for me. I hope