StrixVanAllen

So. I’ve been in DA for a looong time, and I like a lot of people here. So much that I want to share a little of what I went through in the last few months and only now are settling down. It involves getting to a personal low and climbing up and discovering things about myself that were dormant. Who knows, maybe something will ressonate with you and help you in your own journey. I won’t lie, it got a bit longer than I expected, so you can skip to the tl;dr section at the end and judge if you want to read it all or not. — — Part 1  —  That darned virus When the pandemic started, all these months ago, I was in a good mood. My PhD was going well (even if I still had a few uncertainties that made me a bit anxious), with me writing a book chapter that would be soon published and a congress in a beautiful city that I didn’t know yet and was excited to see. The school year was starting and I had lots of plans to make my classes better for my students. Those plans were for me, too, because