On Reaching 200+ Followers

It is an honor and a provacation of immense joy that I have reached 200 followers this past month.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all my followers for your support and encouragement. I am immensely grateful to you! This journey of finding my voice as an author has not been easy. But with the kind gestures from all of you, I am happy to say it has given me many moments of tremendous satisfaction.

You read my work and say something kind and then I know that all this struggling is worth it.

In the beginning, I wrote for myself. Writing was a means of expressing myself. I felt so much inside and had no one to share this with. I felt things deep within that no one else I knew felt.

The people in my circle didn’t express these things to me, and so I thought I was alone. Thus, my only outlet was to write about it. I had to hammer the words into shape to make something out of what I felt. Once I did that, they were real and solid and tangible, and I could work with them more easily. It was easier to let go of the bad feelings when I wrote about them, and it was easier to describe to others the good feelings when I sat down and thought them through in the process of writing.

Then again, maybe people did know how I felt. But that was the whole point all along wasn’t it? When I started to publish them online, I saw, with your help, that other people felt the same way. Suddenly, I didn’t feel so alone. I…