I'm not sure if any of my watchers will read this, but I feel like returning seven years after my last appearance here is something I should talk about. I was a graduating schoolgirl when I wrote my previous post in this journal, and now I have my undergraduate degree and a couple years of working experience (not related to art at all though). Many things have changed since then: I moved to a different city, I met amazing people, I went abroad for short-term studies, I started visiting a therapist, I got a job, I quit a job, I failed to go to Japan as a research student due to the pandemic, and finally I have ended up in a totally unstable place as my whole country — Belarus — is currently fighting for its freedom. (Here you can find more info in different languages: https://www.voiceofbelarus.com/ ) All the experience was — and is — time-consuming, and even without drawing I rarely had an opportunity to sleep enough. Besides that, mentally I wasn't strong enough to create anything at