A Life Update

So as some of you guys might know, I haven't been doing the best mentally since coming to university. For the first several months I've felt very lonely, and I had points where I was crying myself to sleep. It was quite painful, but I'm happy to say that I think I am past that now!

I think I can attribute that to 3 different reasons. First of all, I've finally met some pretty good people in a university discord, and while I'm not particularly close with any of them, it does make me actually excited to interact with people in the same courses as me.

Secondly, I think I've been a lot more active on Twitch in general. After coming back to speedrunning in the summer, I started to form a lot of good friendships with people in Gunnermaniac's commmunity. Combine that with my Pokemon Let's Go Eevee speedrunning experience, and I've talked to a lot of good people online in these past few months. I decided to go to AGDQ this year, and it was by far the best GDQ experience I had.

Thirdly, there was a specific post I saw on Reddit that really changed me. This user said that you should treat yourself like your own best friend. Whenever you feel like a failure, or like you did something wrong, say to yourself what you would say if your friend was in that situation. "Don't worry, you still have more chances!" "At least this was a good learning experience!" I implemented this in my life, and let me tell you that it made a huge difference in my mental health.

Obviously I'm nowhere near where I wanna be yet, however I've started to notice that I'm much more confident in myself over these past couple months, and I just wanted to share that everyone. I hope to keep improving!