> 11.5.2026 life has been very good lately :> of course i still have my down periods, but things have been looking up for quite some time. my beginning of the year was pretty rough, but i recovered faster than i generally would've before, and i've been able to start settling back into some type of "normal" again. it's different, but that's a good thing. on that note, i think the idea of becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable is something everyone should talk about. it's very normalized in the world, but i find it wrong that people are expected to be okay with deeply discomforting lives. bad jobs, bad friend circles, bad communities, bad websites, bad feelings about ourselves, etc. familiar doesn't equal good! you're just *used to it*. it's your "normal". the only path we have is forward, and forward necessitates change. it's not always positive change, but you can work towards positive (and maybe even *neutral*) change. if you don't like where you are, if it hurts you, if it's deeply upsetting, you are *allowed* to pick yourself up and find somewhere that makes you feel better. that gives you more comfort. as long as it isn't predicated on the mistreatment of others. ironically, change is uncomfortable. and you will never learn to be fully comfortable with change. but you can look forward to what that change might bring, and it'll stop being so scary. trust me :3 it'll be different. but it'll be okay