THE RETURN OF NO STRINGS BY SABREENA SALEEM
I'M DEPRESSED. It happens often.
I'm pretty open about what I'm doing and what I'm going through - sometimes to a fault. But I do need my privacy. Instead of moderating my social life and making time for myself, I go hard until I break and need to get away from everyone and everything. Everything includes: friends, human interaction in general, anything that's not my bed, etc. With me there's no middle ground.
The sliver lining is that with depression usually comes creativity. I get this sort of restless depression where I don't want to talk to anyone or do anything except obsess over a creative project that still requires me not talking to anyone. This is how I've done some of my best work. This is how I created No Strings.
The site needed a makeover badly, but I could never make the time to do it. When I launched the site I didn't expect anyone outside of my 5 friends and my mom to visit it, so I kept it minimal. It worked for a while, but I never felt it was a reflection of my style. So I used my last few weeks of solitude to work hard on its design and make No Strings look the way it feels. I obsessed over every detail. I created multiple new logos, a color palette, a style guide. I just wanted to give it a fresh new look. The site deserved it. My friends deserved it. We all deserved it. And seeing the final product made the moments I could hardly get out of bed completely worth it.
So No Strings is back. I'm back. And depression never looked so good.
Be easy,
SS
