I just wanted to take a second to express how happy I am to see that one of my favorite bloggers has resurfaced!
Allie, the BAMF who writes Hyperbole and a Half, went off the grid for awhile while facing her own battle with the insidious monster known as depression. But she returned to the intertubes last night and again this morning and yeah, not going to lie, made me cry.
Hyperbole and a Half has always been one of my favorites, if not my favorite blog, to read. Her humor is fantastic and the gods know that this post isn't the first of hers to make me cry. Her honesty and ability to laugh at herself have always been inspirational to me, and it takes a lot of strength to write a post like this one:
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html
Allie (just in case you stumble across this), I know from experience how overwhelming it can be to have people just fling love all over you (even while it's encouraging). Please take it as a sign from all of us that you've been in our thoughts. I'm reasonably certain that I speak for all of us when I say that you don't have to do anything for us to think that you are awesome. I know I'm not the only one who's checked in in the past few months, not because I need you to entertain me but because I care. For what it's worth, I find the candor of: "Maybe everything isn't hopeless bullshit" so much more comforting than any out and out optimism. You are definitely that kernel for me today. Thank you for being you and for being relentlessly awesome. Thank you for making the world a little less bleak and for letting us all know that we aren't alone. I hope you know that you aren't either.
Seriously friends, go and read Allie's blog. It's good for what ails you.
"Maybe everything isn't hopeless bullshit."
Love, as always,
~E.W.
