Time to gain some more Experience Points.

Hey everyone! How are you all doing?

This isn't exactly big news for any of you, exactly, but it's pretty important for me. Most of you probably don't know this, but these last several weeks have been very......well, it's hard to sum it all up in a word. It's been challenging, illuminating, depressing, frightening, and much more. I'm not going to go into details out of respect to the people involved (though if they're reading this now, they know who they are), but let's just say it hasn't been my finest moment.

I think I'm gonna be okay, though. I'm probably gonna be sad and even a bit bitter for a while, but I have a feeling this is going to be a period of growth for me. While I've struggled with feelings of jealousy, anxiety, and prolonged lapses in self-confidence for years, this experience has let all those feelings hit an all-time high. And it's scared me right stiff, it has! This ain't no way for me to be!

So now I'm more actively trying to take steps in improving. It's high time I try to rediscover myself, and strive to become a better person, not just so people will like me more (and more people will like me), but so I can set myself on the right path.

I'm going to try acting more self-confident so I can eventually be more self-confident. And I'm gonna try to distribute the time I spend among my friends a bit more evenly (and possibly make some new ones?). And hey, maybe this'll end up helping me draw more stuff, too?

I'd like to thank the two friends who taught me this painful lesson for being so amazingly patient with me. One of them in particular I've regrettably grown a bit too dependent on, so now, to my displeasure, I must force myself to not take so much of their time and energy away from them. It's gonna be hard, REALLY hard, but I need to try, for both their sake and mine. I hope they'll continue to support me, as I'll surely continue to support them. (Essentially this means I'll try not to chat with you on Skype so dang often. Unless you actually want me to keep messaging you practically every day, heh heh.)

Thank you all for sticking with me and caring about what I do! I'm grateful for each and every single one of my friends and followers. Yes, even you.