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==08:42==
I've come full circle to feeling [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rem/socentralrain.html this] again, 35 yeas later.

Every time I try to resign myself to the new-old reality*, I come back to the thought that I've made a terrible mistake, that I ''shouldn't'' resign myself.

But I don't know what I could really feasibly do.

So many things are triggers now. Sitting down at keyboard, looking at Discord, looking at my phone.

It happened yesterday evening, so I guess this is Day 1.

Have I hit the bottom yet, or am I still falling?

<nowiki>*</nowiki>It's a new reality which is really just the old reality after falling down from trying to reach a better one. The worst part is that I thought I'd reached it safely.
==08:55==
I thought maybe I was just being melodramatic when I said I didn't know who I'd be without her. So silly. I'll just be who I was ''before'' her, of course.

Reality: I don't know who I am now.
==09:00==
I also can't escape the thought that this was my last chance for deep connection. ...but at least there I also can't avoid remembering that I really wasn't ready to seek it out until the last year or two. So statistically, it's not as unlikely as the ratio of 3:53 (deep connections:years lived) might suggest. I'll cling to that bit of flotsam for now.