That’s it - I’m leaving Tumblr!
For nearly 8 years, I would visit Tumblr almost everyday. As I gained an audience, I started sharing more and more of my life on here. You watched me get my heart broken for the first time and again and again. You watched me go through depression, good times and then bad times again. You watched me start smoking and then quitting, you watched me graduate, move out of my parents house to Vienna. You knew about my first kiss before anyone else, you watched me as I came out as gay, you saw me cry and laugh and you saw me speechless and numb.
Over the past eight years my life changed, again and again, and I grew as a person. Tumblr was my outlet, my happy place and my place to dream. As of now, I can truly say that I am happy and complete. That’s why my journey on Tumblr ends here, today. I want to thank everyone of my followers (you grew to almost 9000 people in the end) for helping me, for your kind messages throughout the last years. I also want to thank the people I met through here. I got to know Lorenz ( he used to have a blog called @fieber ) who I sometimes still talk to today. He got me through a lot of stuff and we used to text every day, all the time. I want to thank Lena ( @sein-wie-ich) for our late night Facebook Chats about dishwashers. I want to thank merve, ynara and the whole original German “Tumblr-Squad” (@mistfinger & co.) that made me forget my life when I felt bad. I also want to thank Christian ( @katzentage ) for his great pictures that are beautiful to watch. I think he already graduated from photography school and still does great photography - if you might ever see this, keep up the good work!
I won’t delete my blog, but I will stop posting on it, and I might protect it with a password in the future. If you still want life updates, feel free to follow me on my Instagram (@metaphern).
Thanks again for everyone who watched me, talked to me and made this a safe place for me. I know to many this whole fuzz about me ending my blog might sound silly. But this site meant something to me and it had an impact on my youth. Bye for now, you are loved!
Alex
