It’s been a while since I last posted something
substantial here. Ironically, it’s not from a lack of things to write. A lot of
notable things have happened to me in the past year, I just don’t really know
how and where to start.
2015 was an extremely challenging year for me. In bullet
points, these were the biggest things I had to deal with:
·
I went through a terrible breakup. It happened
just a couple of weeks before our supposed first anniversary
·
I got physically, mentally and emotionally burned
out from work. Too many challenges but not enough rewards
·
I became financially unstable due to some very
unfortunate circumstances at work.
·
My father, whom I had not spoken to for five
years, went into a coma and then died after two weeks
·
I became clinically depressed. I spent a few
months just holed up at home, cut off from work, family and most of my friends
But there were also a few small wins:
·
I wrote something and submitted it in an online
column and it was published. That was my first time to be published anywhere
·
I finally got around to taking voice lessons;
something I’ve been wanting to do for years
·
I had the courage this year to seek professional
help for my depression and was slowly able to overcome it
Most of all, I can say with full confidence that those
ordeals have made me a better person than I was before any of it happened. I’m
still on the road back to recovering fully from my depression, and I’m still in
the process of getting my life back together, but the good thing is that I am
already on my way.
And as part of that road to full recovery and full
getting-life-back-together, I might go back to blogging. I’ve always found
writing to be cathartic and helpful in putting my thoughts into perspective.
So stick around, folks. Nishiboy is (probably) back.
