Something made me smile

The above image is unimpressive.

The above image made me smile.

It's simple to observe, but it took a lot of learning, frustration, and perseverance to make a check box move a watering can up 8 pixels on my screen. It doesn't matter why, and it's certainly not worth a tutorial. What matters is when it happened I smiled.

I've always been a self-described "builder of things," and depression has really squashed that urge to build. It happened slowly, I think, and especially because of my career still involved building things throughout the days... it just wasn't bringing me any joy like it once did. Building things became a burden, a stress, a responsibility.

I don't know how to make it fun again all the time, but I'm happy it was just now. Hopefully I can keep finding little wins like this that lead to a happier story down the line.