alt title: "I guess this is why people with executive functioning skills journal"
Since I logged back in after being away from Hexbear for around a year and a half, I've been rereading my old comments. The last few years have been really tumultuous for me personally and it's been really helpful to have a bunch of little snapshots of who I am and where my head's been at since Hexbear opened.
I'm AuDHD and have a really diffuse sense of self a lot of the time, so it's been nice getting re-acquainted with my own personality (hopes, dreams, desires, insecurities, interests, values, and everything else) especially after some drawn-out periods of burnout, depression, and just being in survival mode. I like who I am. I'm a lot kinder than I remember.
That's been helpful for guiding some of my goals and and reminding myself of what I value for getting my life back to a happier place again, too.
Plus it's been good refreshing myself on my opsec lies so I can feel comfortable not deleting my old comments and preserve my thought record for the future 
The comment-reread has been a great reminder about how I really like this place. I've had a ton of fantastic conversations with the comrades here, learned all sorts of things, helped people and received help myself. The argument-to-positive-convo ratio in my comment history is honestly way lower than I even thought it would be. Huge shout out to all of the comrades here (posters and mods alike) for making it the least-terrible place on the internet 