Brain on Hiatus
It's been longer than a month since I blogged. It started in a funk - I was depressed and my writing was making everybody else depressed. I stopped my musing online since I didn't want a legacy like Goethe's - and end up with a future Wikipedia entry that reads: "good enough writer, but people died by suicide after reading her blog!". I also stopped writing because I felt like nothing was worth it. Depression is just a symptom and one cannot put a plaster on a seeping wound by not addressing the cause. In my case, my shunt was broken and has been probably for the past year. Thought you had a bad 2020? I have you beat there! Anyway, one more drilling and now I am back where I was a year ago- corrective brain surgery is done and waiting for the rest of my life to begin- albeit a more subdued, less optimistic, more realistic me now. If you had wondered why I wouldn't shut up about my little brain surgery from a year ago, this was why. It wasn'...