Oh my.... It seems my conundrum is enough to break my 15-year long journal-making virginity streak. Be gentle.

Jests aside, and as just mentioned, i've run into a bit of a creative problem pertaining to a core part of myself.
In terms of self portrayal, i've no idea how to go forward. Without going into oversharing territory, i have been having some of the roughest years of my adult life. In this i have lost much of my sense of self, my creative drive has suffered, i don't remember how to do what i used to. I've had to seek professional help and it has been going okay. However it has been very difficult to try to navigate how i can find myself again, when... Well, after years, that self isn't exactly around anymore, you are someone new molded by experience, even if some things haven't changed (but might have to.)

To you, i pose a question - How do / did you find and choose your fursona(s)?
Your current fursona, your fursonas of the past.... I would like to hear it.

There are so many ways to go about it, it is overwhelming. I used to be able to make such decisions when i was younger but have found going about comitting to a deicison much more difficult in my adult life, when there are so many avenues for doing anything.

Do you go with your favorite animal? Or the animal you feel fits you best? What you would desire to look / behave like, versus how you actually are and appear to yourself or others?
Even fantasy creatures, such as Digimon, Neopets, PokeMon.... Folklore, the choices are endless.

Lately i have been going straight for Blumaroo of NeoPets, since i have always been attached to the world since youth. But i would also like a real life animal for... perhaps something akin to guidance in my life. I love ceratopsians and normally stick with the dinosaur - It's just so cute and embodies such strength (Neither of these are very applicable to me, but are fun to draw. xD) But due to the nature of being extinct and knowing so little about them, i think about what i would be like as something more contemporary. I just like far too many animals!
Aardvarks, elephants, rhinoceros, hogs, lizards, mice, canines.... I could go further into thought for each idea i have but we'd be here forever.