#im just busier offline

[aedan-mills]

things I learn from being off tumblr for longer days and actually interacting with people and working and such:

people's opinions and baseless criticisms of me online should have no bearing to my mental state. Even if they do, and did, I realized I have a LIFE outside of this app or any app. Whether I was unintentionally mean, or cringey, or if I prioritized my online persona, it kinda doesn't matter (aside from my lovely new and lasting online friends ofc haha I luv u) but I have come to realize the post-pandemic return to society made me appreciate both my time of reclusion here AND my time parting with it. I'm worried I'll be forgetten from my time here, or I'll forget what I did for fun here, but all I know is that I felt alive here even for a bit and it was because of you all. I'll slowly detach to live like i did before, but know it was all fun being here while it lasted. I'm not fully leaving right now lmao, I'm just... in a better place, I hope. And I hope you, the reader, realize that there is life outside of your insecurities online, or beef, or superficial virtue signalling. There isn't any point to be persona online if you can't be a real person irl and live.

lmao so anyway, I miss my friends here too ok,,, it's still weird I'm not as active but it's kinda for the best, mentally. uwu expect fics to still sometimes pop out tho 💖