Reblogged
This post originally appeared on my old blog, Unwritten, but I wanted to move it here because I feel like this is an incredibly important piece of my journey. It's a long one, but I hope you'll read it if you come across it! It has been awhile since I've written. I guess maybe I just haven't felt like talking about what I've been going through... or maybe it is that I have been so confused about what I've been feeling it's been too hard to put in words. For awhile, things were good. I got a job that I didn't hate, decided to make my way back onto the stage, and I was even elected to the Board of Directors for a local non-profit. I really felt like I was starting to get to that whole responsible adult place. And then I lost my job. After struggling for so many months to get one, and then to just lose it without warning... it brought everything crashing down around me. In public, I made jokes about not having a job, but when I was alone, I was spiral...