"Dear inner wolf... how are you feeling?"

Adventures with Anxiety is a very good game (also take a peek at the game dev's mental health tips relating to the game) 🙏 I love the game's message of anxiety not being either good or bad but just simply your body trying its best. I replay it every now and then because the last chapter is so good :,) really resonating with that "I feel like we are inherently broken" option

I like Nicky Case's games in general so check out their other games as well!

Read More has a non-text version along with a process video of me drawing the whole thing vvvvvvvvv

Nobody has ever been able to describe for me that

ache, somewhere in the middle of my chest, 

the roiling of water and dirt and blood in places I 

can't reach. 

I feel it sometimes when I am alone in front of a 

computer screen and I realize that I have thousands of friends 

on the internet and none in real life. 

That pit in my stomach tells me that I have nothing

and I will be nothing and I should try for nothing because

nothing will become of it. 

I've been told not to trust the melancholy that hits me 

in the moments before dusk. Elusive emotions give you

nothing to hit when the pounding in your head gives up and

needs somewhere to go. 

But people tell you who to trust and then walk away when the 

brightness in your eyes turns into the flicker of a burned out light

bulb and then one day disappears entirely.

I'm sorry that your butterflies want to leave. I believe that our bodies

remake themselves just a little bit when we meet new people. I hope that

when you meet someone new you can smile and forget about the

butterflies that insisted on flying away.