Let’s time travel to 2015, when I wanted to be a blogger and win the things all YouTubers were winning and be paid to post about a book or maybe a perfume. I always wished to have an audience, but I had no emotional structure nor the strength to create countless posts until someone noticed me.

At that time, I wrote my posts in Portuguese. I did what others were doing: DIYs, movie reviews, what’s in my bag. Today, simple posts about my simple life, with no photos that had gone through a very carefully planned production, gather more audience than I have ever had ten years ago, when I was trying not-so-hard to be someone on the internet.

And when I open the page that says how many people come to spend a little time with me every month, and see all those numbers, I can’t help but wonder who you guys are – that are so many of you, from all around the world. And even though I can stay away from the blog for months, you guys keep coming and reading my content. Thank you so much.

From now on I want to work on this blog for real. No more spontaneous posts from time to time, no more deleting posts where I was crying over that man whom I was always talking about (I wish him the best, though). And I couldn’t have reached this decision without you guys, that were here even when I was not.

Thank you so-so-so much for never giving up on me. I’m so scared right now, because I did something that I didn’t know that I shouldn’t have, and that something is here now to collect its price. Having this place, and to simply write about simple things in a simple way feels good, especially because content like this is disappearing from the internet.