Wow! I can't believe TWO years have passed. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
For everything♡
“I’m grateful. To have you at my side. I don’t know if I ever told you that–how grateful I am to have you stand with me.”
–Sarah J. Maas
I Don't Have Enough Words to Thank You :')
Two years of reading breathtaking books. 2 years of submerging myself in stories where I can lose the sense of reality. But more importantly, two years have passed since I found my family. Where there's no judgment about the books we read, a safe place for everyone to be themselves. I can't thank you enough for this.
A couple of days ago, I realized that I was about to celebrate two years of being here, among a community that has given me so much. Two years of trying to find myself again. And made me think about how much I have changed in these few years (people who say people don't change are lying). I want to cry while my hands are shaking just typing this, but in these two years, I have found myself, and all is thanks to finding my love for reading again, and especially you. I was so lost for so long stumbling in the dark without a clear path. Angry with life and myself, feeling like the universe hated me and I was paying some karma I wasn't aware of. Then the pandemic came, and I was gifted (shoutout to my mom for buying it) ACOTAR. I have to be honest, I didn't have high expectations for this book, but it really shut my mouth. This amazing, emotional, spectacular book series made me open my eyes. I know for a fact, that soon enough, ACOTAR will be considered a classic because everyone who has read this book has felt almost the same way as me.
And so on, I started reading (more like devouring) books. I got to meet amazing characters who taught me so much. Some book characters stay with us in a way that no other one has; that's how characters like Aelin, Rhysand, Nesta, Cassian, Feyre, Rowan, Casteel, and Poppy engraved themselves in my heart. How each of these characters taught me something different; how because of them, I wanted to improve myself. How I found awe-inspiring people (YOU) in Bookstagram. I found I wasn't the black sheep of society. And I can't thank you enough for these.
Somehow, finding Bookstagram and you, it was just like when Feyre first encountered Rhys, and he said “There you are. I've been looking for you." I believe that God, the Universe, the Cauldron, or however you want to call it, gave us this. Life can be so full of awful moments, but to know we have someone to vent to and forget reality for a little while, can change lives forever.
Happy tears blur my vision when I think that the Cauldron made us coincide. That we found our DMs and started chatting with me and became my friend. For allowing me to get to know you. Because everything started with a: "We like the same book" or "I love that book you're reading, what do you think about this and that?", and somehow that evolved into a friendship. Our conversations went from talking about books to our daily things and sharing our deepest fears and life struggles.
We have been through so much. These past years have been full of ups and downs, and even if Mercury was in retrograde most of it, it was so much easier to go through it all by reaching out a hand and having us side by side. Climbing the mountain together, never leaving the other out.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you. I wouldn't be me if it wasn't because of you. I have so many words and things to say, however, I feel like you get the point haha.
For many more years, of sharing a book life with you.
To whatever end,
Gal♡
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