4 years later . .
hi tumblr! itās nice to be here again~
actually almost every day iām here to read fanfics haha. anyway, itās been a long while, a long four years since iāve last written here! a lot of things have changed obviously, if not all. having read my past entries, it may be all summarized into two words -- mentally ill haha. i clearly remember how it felt, how it hurt, how it was empty but very overwhelming. it was a phase i would never want to go back again.
i was diagnosed with depression three years ago, in 2020. i gathered up the courage to talk to a psychiatrist but once i diagnosed i kinda ghosted my doctor. i never talked to a psychiatrist again ever since, and i never planned to again, not until about a month ago.
to save you some time, yes, it did get better. everything went better for me. is this surprising? to me, it really is. one major concern that i was writing about four years ago was college. having been raised in a family full of UP graduates, i was expected to be one also, and four-year-ago me never believed i could. another was my parents. i couldnāt survive living with them -- i couldnāt survive them at all. next, well, my harasser haha. and another was just full of suicidal thoughts.
all lo and behold, i am in UP now. believe it or not, iāve just actually submitted my thesis topic proposals to my thesis adviser a few hours ago. yes, thesis! iām more than three years in with this college shit, with an unbelievably above bare minimum cumulative gpa. crazy, right? and i couldnāt even get a line of 8 in my math subject when i was in elementary.Ā
my parents are, well, better. but, you know.
letās unpack what iāve written before.
i want to take my time with my friends without worrying about their scolding afterwards. i want to study my readings without worrying about their satisfaction on my grades. i want to take a philosophy course. i want to be an activist. i want to write. i want to have a tattoo. i want to have a septum piercing. i want to wear black outfits.
all that iāve (thankfully) experienced already. almost four times a week i get home late at midnight from hanging out with friends. everyday i study my readings without worrying about my grades. iām able to attend rallies. iām writing (now haha). i do have a tattoo already. i have a very sexy septum piercing. and thereās literally not a day i donāt wear black
except one. iām not majoring in philosophy. and for the past three years i think about it everyday. but itās not worth hyperfixating on that yeah?
i acknowledge that everything got better to me. this is a phase that i never ever imagined iād be going through. i experienced maximum level of happiness at times. and iām surrounded with people who make me want to keep going everyday. iām given responsibilities i never expected i could handle, and i receive bigger and bigger blessings everyday.
it is worth noting, however, that i also acknowledge having the same mental illness(es), haha. is this something to be sad about? perhaps yes, but not all the time. these four years taught me that this is really sickness. being depressed is not something we could cover up withĀ ātime will healā, as i thought it would. continuously i believed that iām completely okay. because i was laughing everyday, because i had all the reasons to smile everyday, and because i wasnāt sad anymore -- i couldnāt understand why there were still days that i couldnāt get up, that i couldnāt sleep, that waking up and functioning for the day were the hardest, hardest part. for the past four years, it took me time to realize.
i think the hardest thing about this, is that i never planned on living this long. iām scared of graduating because i never thought i would. iām scared of having to maneuver my own career path because i never thought i would. i completely thought i would kill myself, and i was always so sure, now i donāt know what to do.
i have goals, finally. i do want to graduate. i do want to maneuver my own career path. i want to experience touching my first designer bag for the first time. i want to book monthly appointments to maintain a sexy eyelash extension. i want my own apartment some day.
but having to do that everyday, having to wake up and get up for the day. i donāt often see the light to go through the process. i donāt think i can explain this properly. i know this feeling all too well. for years, most days, this is exactly how i feel. at times i donāt, which i consider the lucky days, but how do i actually work on having lucky days every day?
i know the answer is therapy. and i hope iāll get there soon.
will get back to you when i finally get a job, i guess.
thank you for keeping me alive,
liwayway















