Ana, meet Johari

So after over a year, here she is. Back on the blogosphere with...? Well, with a year's worth of bellyaches to spill out....Just kidding. No one wants to read about old rants...and the whole point of a rant is it helps to vent out while there's still an issue, right?

Now that I'm back on the rock, and have made an attempt at "settling in", whatever that implies, I am hoping to have more time to dedicate to painting and writing. Having signed a contract for an apartment last week, and having almost completed the write-up for my PhD, I am nearly at a point in my life when I can finally follow my heart and spend more time doing what makes me happy.

So what is it that I'm going to spend my time doing? Here's where the title of this post starts to make some sense.....I will take time to find what years of close friendship with Ana and Mia (anorexia and bulimia, for the uninitiated) have taken away. Friends, family, jobs, arts....all this was taken away, or put on the backburner, because of one unrelenting obsession. But now it's time to start over and reclaim what's mine. About time too, one may think. Well, I have always believed that if I'm going to do something, I have to do it well, or drop it altogether. So far I haven't had the energy, or courage for that matter, to face my fears. But things have been changing. All these major events going on in my life spurred me into actively wanting to close overdue chapters before starting afresh.

So here it is. My Johari window, as seen by my Ana-less and Mia-less self, and (if anyone is still out there to contribute) as seen by the blogreaders.

http://kevan.org/johari?name=Moondustana

...oh, and this time I promise, it won't take me another year to post!

XXX