On coming back to a work that's been sitting on the shelf for a while, and actually liking what you wrote.

TL;DR: I recently went back and liked something I put away for a while. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing, and is this normal?

I took a three to four month hiatus on writing anything due to my life changing quite drastically very quickly. In a mild depression brought on in part by my lack of confidence in my ability to express myself creatively, I opened up my Pages app and read the intro to the story I was writing before the craziness happened. I loved it. I loved it more than I did when I wrote it, and somehow, it was more relevant in my life *now* than it was months ago when I wrote it.

The thing that's bothering me is that I haven't heard too much about this. Usually when people put something away, they can find flaws that weren't in it before and edit it accordingly. I'm not sure what that says for me; whether the story is he big flaw I happen to personally like, or that I'm not looking at it critically enough.

I guess my question is, has this ever happened to anyone, and is this a normal feeling after putting something away for so long, because I've never heard of it.