Jun 04, 2010 19:21
EIGHT YEAR LJ-VERSARY!
Eighteen hundred and fifty-one posts.
Lots of friends made.
Some friends lost.
Six fandoms.
Five trips to Europe.
Four major relationships.
One love of a lifetime.
One engagement.
One wedding.
Lots of important stuff has happened to me over the last eight years.
So what have I learned, growing from that girl who created an lj to post memes from Italy until now? (not that anyone asked)
My lj is somewhere I've always felt safe enough to post. This isn't a journal I use to lurk in communities. It's my diary, my venting post, occasionally my soapbox, and my shoulder. Drama happens (oh how it happens) but it hopefully blows over and people grow and take from it what they will.
I might flit in and out of fandoms but I've been fortunate enough to make friends in all of them, despite our activity and that shared interest maybe fading out. I've lost some of them along the way too, but that happens in life.
However, I've learned the people who matter are the ones who read these posts. You might shake your heads sometimes at my mood swings, my rages, my excitement, my antics, and my crazy compulsion to spam you with pictures/songs/videos of the current love(s) of my lfe, but you've stuck around and you still comment every once in a while, and (hopefully) don't just scroll past my entries rolling your eyes.
You've made a difference in my life.
Thank you. ♥
when real life and internets collide,
rl,
friends