Seeing your art, I would love to do an art trade with you since I love your art style and I would like you to draw my pokesona, if you want. :3

Even though it may not mean much of anything coming from someone such as myself, I will express a thought.

Seeking help for what you may perceive as an issue may be helpful, at least for the short term. The long term is something that largely is a mystery. Many questions roam around going unanswered and potentially providing a sense of pressure, dread even. Self help is something that Many have a tendency give 10 reasons as to why they shouldn't before they have a single one as to why they should. Although that largely depends on what it is that they are seeking as self help specifically...

To boil it down, self help, care, or what have you is something that certainly should be considered when life and the mind become far heavier to be handled. Running away from often tends to lead to things only getting worse, and like fire, a problem will burn until it runs out of things to burn, or is put out.

Those are my two cents. A penny to the dollar, easily over looked and not worth much, but easily considered better than nothing, sometimes. One of the few people who do at least want to care and try to show that they do. It beats the emptiness and spite that is expressed vastly over all else... Even if it may just be hypocritical to say so.

Oh I'm very glad to hear your response. It DOES beat the emptiness, I mean seriously I am very appreciative. And you know, I think we agree quite a lot. I think the way you word it is very succinct, and I suppose I wouldn't describe it too differently. I find running away to be a natural response, even if one knows it's not towards a solution, simply because there seem to be no alternatives. I think another part of all this is that sometimes you run away for the safety of others, but people will say "Why are you running away? That won't solve anything!" Except yes, it does in a sense because going forward will result in harming others.

And in this scenario, I feel like I can expect no real solutions. It's all easy when it's a matter of hurting one's self and 'getting over it' but if it involves other people, this sort of regressive withdrawal can feel like the only solution. Well, I mean unless you throw out the people you're protecting!

That being said I think I've turned yet another corner (in the upstairs maze, hehe) on this and I feel a tad less worried than before. But I do think what you say is right, and I'm glad you, and others do say things .w. I feel bad I come across as so prickly sometimes. That's something I had an idea about when turning the corner -w- It does, to be sure though, involve having less compassion, rather than more. I felt as if I should try to question people, whittle them down with "But, if you do that, won't it...?" or "Well, the only problem with that is, well...?" But lately I have no more questions. Bleach the roots of compassion, and the answers are clear. But, no one along the way told me to be less compassionate. Yesterday, I might have asked a question like "Does that mean it's right? Will people accept it if I do something less compassionate?" But today there is no question. Just whatever is about to happen ahead, regardless of how much it will hurt others or myself. It was not a concern before, and if it becomes one afterward, I think everyone knows I tried looking for a way out.

Emotion is often one of those tools that can dig more holes than one can crawl out of. An adjustment may be necessary as it typically is if one wants some semblance of comfort in their life. As per usual though, everything is better in moderation, too little or too much can lead to falling into the same “trap” again, whatever it may be. Regrets will have to be dealt with as they come along, but one thing to be certain is to avoid back tracking, or over correcting, too much as well. Some progress is better than no progress. Excuses and “hard stops,” will only make it, well, harder. Do be sure to not break yourself though, based on whatever that may mean to you.

With that said, we will see. You’ll be seeing the most, considering that I am hardly a part of your life beyond a thing with a name that can speak, and all I can really do is watch. Good luck.