I've wanted to make music ever since I was a kid, but I got depressed and didn't touch my guitar for a few years and I accidentally assigned meaning to my inability to create. Now I'm afraid to start up again because the concept of me writing songs has become a symbol of how far I've fallen so it feels safer to just write terrible poetry and pretend it wouldn't sound cooler as song lyrics. As a professional, do you have any advice?
it's important to remember that any great progress you've made before was starting from an equally low or lower point than where you may be now