Slight Change

So I think there's a slight change in the air. I've been doing a lot of thinking and have started on a spiritual journey that seems to have lifted some of the burden of depression I've been feeling. Most of it is too personal to retell on a blog, but my heart doesn't feel quite so heavy. Am I happy? Well, if less-depressed is happiness, then yes. But if happiness is more than that, then probably not yet. What I am feeling is a bit more empowered, a bit more focused, less enervated. So this is all an improvement. I don't feel like I'm so alone, that there is a power outside of me and this earth that will help me carry this burden. And I'm trying to be grateful for my experiences with depression, because if nothing else, surviving depression makes me more empathetic to others.