Hello, You.

A love letter to my head injury symptoms.

Hello, You,

You, take the ground from beneath my feet, make my head spin like I just got off a roundabout. The dizziness in my head feels like a planet orbiting the sun at speeds never seen before. You make everything a blur, take the tempo of how I see things down to a cinematic slow motion worthy of a big Hollywood movie moment. Background blurred, my focus on nothing, but, You.

You stop me from thinking straight, make my thoughts merge from a fast lane on a freeway to a holdup on a rural route.

Since You happened to my life, it has been turned upside down, sometimes in the best of ways. Other times it feels like my life has already ended, stopped dead in it’s tracks since the day, You.

It became apparent from a recent meet at the Notes cafe (if you don’t already hang out there, you should join me some time, we talk about stuff like this) that there are quite a number of watchers of a certain TV show. So, this, is for You.

I don’t suppose a charming book selling / faux professor / serial killer is everyone’s cup of tea, this is still for you, you just won’t hear it in Penn Badgley’s voice as you read.

I passed the three year mark on my head injury. I wanted to find a creative way to mark that in honor of all the creativity it unlocked. A love letter of sorts to the symptoms that I have lived with on and off for the past three years and have once again joined me thanks to too. much. fun. (flareups happen when I push too hard, I’m just not good at sitting still).

I think it kind of helps to trivialise the beast and poke fun at it too, if I didn’t I think I’d be so much angrier about it all.

In other news, dare I say it, I think it’s spring! Found this beauty on a walk yesterday and knew I wanted to share it with you. Did you know lilacs are edible? Me neither until I came to drawing a bunch of edible plants for a collection of greetings in my previous life as a graphic designer. I should have know there was an illustrator hiding in me somewhere I guess. Sometimes it takes someone (or something) hitting us over the head really hard (physically or metaphorically, I’d choose metaphorically next time, less side effects) to make us see what we can be.

Have you ever had that? A big life changing / career changing moment that moved your entire being to another path? The head injury left me with some really unexpected side effects.

Sending love, to You,

(I’m done with that now, I promise)

V.V x

P.s If you’re going to let me know what you thought of the You season finale, it’s welcome in the comments as long as you keep it spoiler free.

Also, planning something fun for you in my next letter. If you aren’t subscribed already, what are you waiting for!?

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