A long interlude
! older snippet from a year-ish ago
I stopped blogging.. maybe 15 years back or so? Social media was slowly uprising. I didn’t want to work on my website anymore. I used to change my layout almost every week, because once I finished I would be starting a new one already.
Back then, Internet Explorer 6 was my worst enemy. My website would work perfectly in Firefox, Opera even Safari probably. I don’t even remember if Chrome was already a thing.. But it was good times. Maybe the mobile internet was uprising, the need for responsiveness. Or also, I started moving to Medium.com once I discovered the platform and I felt proud. I was writing, under a pseudonym, but then I came out with my real name.
I remember a coworker of mine coming to me one day, so yeah I was just reading some stuff on medium.com and there was this amazing article and then at the bottom I suddenly saw your name, that was amazing!
I kept doing it for a while, I tried to join a few circles to keep writing but nobody accepted me. I kept reading, I saw the platform transforming into what it is today and I gave up. My words would never be good enough. Not even for me, I’m a perfectionist by heart, I wanted to write. To dream, to build images in peoples heads with my words. I wanted to touch people. It didn’t work, it wasn’t worth it for me. I left.. went to live the real life.
And boy what a life was waiting for me…