I'm doing well.
Fun facts, good things, stray thoughts:
- Greenland is the least densely populated country in the world. Of the 239 countries, Canada is 228th. I love living in such a large country, it really is beautiful. I remember going to visit friends of the family out West when I was 12 or so, and I would wake up in the middle of the night because the air was so dry. My lips were constantly chapped. It's strange, the things we remember.
- If one were to walk from Vancouver, British Columbia to Sydney, Australia, one would have to kayak across the Pacific Ocean. Google Maps seems to discriminate against kayaking across the Atlantic Ocean, oddly enough. I have yet to find an instance of kayaking across the Atlantic.
- A full quarter of this country's population resides in the Golden Horseshoe in southern Ontario. I'm just sort of in awe.
- New Brunswick has a lot of parishes.
- I got an A+ on my Global Politics paper. I'm quite pleased, even if I'm still curious as to what made me lose a mark in the analysis/argument section.
- I don't know how to cite the Bible. Oddly enough, realizing this did not lead to an identity crisis. We'll say this is a plus.
- I miss counseling, a little bit. Not in the traditional sense of missing, though. More...having someone completely impartial, someone who is trained to help me sort out the strands in my head, who understands what I'm talking about. But counseling is incredibly expensive, and I know that I'm doing ok enough that I don't really need it at this moment in time.
- I feel a bit like a fake in my depression and self-injury because I'm doing so well. I feel like it should have been harder to get better, or something. It's the same thing with my eating disorder, I told Kathleen once that it felt like I had cheated the system.
-half the time I don't know if I want Fin in my life. Actually, no, I do want him in my life. I just don't know if it's what's healthiest for me.
- My head is a tapestry and the strands keep pulling tighter, blinding me. I pick out the big strands and I deal with them.
- I'm pretty sure that I have the best friends I could ask for. I feel so blessed to have found everyone I've found this year.
- I am going to miss Fredericton and STU with a passion previously only reserved for family and those closest to me. It's going to be four months away from home.
- I'm getting better.
"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus
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We're all going to miss you too. You are doing so well, and I know you're going to keep up the great work over the summer. Don't ignore the little strands. Sometimes when you clear away the little things, it builds momentum up and makes it easier to clear away the big things.
ReplyDeleteLike with a tree that gets cut down. You take off all the branches first and take them away, so that when you cut down the tree, it doesn't get caught up and tangled in all the stuff around it and you can just move it away.