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They go hand in hand and it took me a long time to realize this. For years I had as much time as I could possibly want to write and draw and create whatever it was that I wanted to - because I had the time, because I had the drive and the ideas to communicate. That creative outlet fell out of my regular schedule pretty quickly once university hit, homework and reading assignments and studying pretty quickly took up all of my free time.. And now that I'm working, living a full "adult" life with a regular full-time job, friends, and a routine? The drive and the time are there to start that creative outlet up again, the ideas? I'm still looking for those... Trying to create after all of this time now is an uncomfortable process. It doesn't flow like it used to, and the fact that it doesn't is frustrating. It's a hard recognition to the fact that I am not the same person I used to be. So I'm setting a goal for myself to try and get those creative ...

I've spent a lot of time learning. And about a lot of things that I honestly couldn't find two fucks to give about now. So here are a few things that I have learned in the past week that actually matter: Chicken & Waffle beer is a delicious, marvelous thing and don't let anyone tell you lies about it I cannot draw like I used to be able to and it is an endlessly frustrating thing for me to feel like I'm not being creative I have to be able to forgive myself (which is, of course, much easier said than done) I am not close to the extrovert I once thought myself to be I want to take my time to learn a little bit more about me. Things don't have the same value as they once did and I am not the same person I was when I started pretending to adult. There's real adulting that happens in my life now - like solo-travel, work trips, and student loan payments. I don't really know what I'm going to achieve with this. Maybe it can be a crea...