As the title implies, it has been a pretty long time since I've said anything/really interacted with anyone here on FA. Those who are on FA typically found me on Telegram or even just don't talk to me anymore, but I see it as the both of us have lives to live. Enough with that, here's the update.

So, since I graduated HS in 2017, I've been in college and I plan to graduate college this December of Fall 2021, may change if anything pops up and probably Spring 2022, just to be cautious if anything does go on. I have been more interactive online and playing games and such, but also working a lot more and taking my life more seriously. I drifted away from the furry fandom (the FurAffinity aspect of it) and drastically decreased the amount of art that I have gotten. I don't look for requests because I can work now and I'd rather pay an artist than ask. I want us both to get satisfaction out of the cause, right?

The past 4 years have also been really rough for me but I'm very happy where I am now. I will elaborate.

Starting with my Freshman year of college, and when I was still pretty adamant about writing and such, I found it hard to fit in, especially with environments I was never with. Typical freshman year, you are liked, disliked, or just not noticed, and because I do love attention, I'd want to do what I could to be noticed.

Skipping to my Sophomore year was when things just started to get pretty crazy and my life had turned a whole 180. I took things seriously because I had therapy Spring 2019 from February-May; my name was slandered amongst the Smash scene in my area because a "friend" who led the group I was part of was jealous of me because I could beat anybody on campus. I didn't really see Smash as something serious, but I put my fun and personality in front of victory, but I did both. I won tournaments and stuff around the area and they had to cancel smash tourneys on campus because of me. He was jealous of me and he left me alone during locals so I had no one to be with. His band of friends thought I was weird and said some rather offensive things because I was in therapy. After that semester, there was a really bad storm and a tree had been blown down and it crashed onto my house. Saved by the Lord's grace, I was at work an hour after the tree fell, and the tree crushed my entire room. My brother was all right which is the most important thing and he was not hurt. My possessions such as clothes, writing books, my collectibles, and my Bible was scrapped. My electronics were fine since I never keep them in my room aside from my handheld ones.

That leading Fall of 2019, I had fallen into having depression. It was hard for me to focus on anything that I liked and the therapeutic traumas started to come up randomly, resulting in me having really malicious thoughts to myself. My school grades were higher than normal as my GPA is all ready a 3.25 average all ready, but for the semester, it was a 3.41. My focus on my studies were really high, but my mentality and motivation for all other things diminished.

While my Jr. year was rather bad at the start, COVID-19 had come along the following semester of Spring 2020. My motivation was practically gone, but then I started to really have a lotta courage to stand up and actually take this time to be productive. I started to do a lotta in-house things like cooking different things and actually encouraged myself to make new hobbies. I started to feel better about myself even in this pandemic. I have never got COVID and I pray for those that do that you can fight it, but I started really change my lifestyle and after the tree incident from above, I'm happier now than I ever was.

As a Sr. now, I have a better job that pays rather well compared to the minimum wage here; I can pay my bills easily; I made a lotta new friends; I just feel much better as a person. I believe that staying positive and praying a lot and having faith is something that got me through a lot. Of course not all practice this, but remember to always keep going and don't stop thinking positive. Even the bad things can just be a way of saying that there are better alternatives.

Bluntly put is what I said from all that above, but I remember being here so much. Made a lotta friends here and I'm hoping I can talk to some of the ones I used to be with. I still remember most people here.

P.S. I forgot how to do the FA Commands, but I cleared my gallery out so all there is is Ty Kazaka. My fursona that I used to use. I have a new fursona but I'll keep Ty here and on Telegram.

~Ty Kazaka/T.K.