Reason I'm Alive
It's been a while since I've done anything, hasn't it? Guess I've been a little busy. To catch y'all up to speed, I was out of work for the first six months of the year, due to an injury, surgery, and subsequent massive downturn in the job market. But back in June, after attending a desperately needed mental health retreat, I got an offer to return to a former employer, and have been super busy ever since, making up for my six month "vacation". Its pretty sweet work, which has me traveling all over the state. My cover photo for this article is a lake I like to stop at for my lunch breaks when I'm traveling in that area. But the purpose of me writing today is not about my employment history or scenic destinations. Rather, its the mental slum I went through while unemployed. Really, a mental slum I've gone through multiple times now. Contemplating suicide early in 2020, aging out of my young writers community in 2023, failing out of law enforcement...