you are (STILL) why I’m here
reposting YOU ARE WHY I’M HERE, MARCH 8TH EDITION
I’m still here because of you.
Yup, I’m with a lot of you. I want it to be clever. I want the puzzle to add up to something, for there to be a greater game afoot. I showed up here because I fell head over heels in love with a version of this story that so many of you also see. I wanted the show makers to be making Our Story. But if they are, their game is cruel. And if they aren’t, I don’t need to keep looking for it.
Because it doesn’t stop that I’m still ridiculously in love with this story. And wow, many of you are, too. They don’t get to touch that. We exist in our own right, a bunch of little bright spots scattered all over the world connected by copper cable and invisible airwaves, and we get to share that, for as long as we want. We don’t need to be validated by one particularly loud narrator. We are the best narrators. We can find it in their episodes, we can cobble it together with our own hands. I’m here for your stories, your art, your umpteen intelligent, compassionate variations of this idea we love.
I could exist here as a very happy audience to your work, but then something totally magical happened. In the last few months, I found a brave part of myself I hadn’t dared think existed. The safety of this community helped me love myself enough to make time for my writing in the midst of family-work-a-day chaos and crushing self-doubt. To try harder, to take chances. I gave my stories to you and found kindness and excitement and acceptance. I mean, wow, that’s some healing shit.
Now. Multiply my little bright spot of an experience exponentially.
So. That’s why I’m here. Because of you, because love conquers all, because you’re telling the story I want to read again and again, and I hope I am, too. May my small glow of appreciation lift you up, as you have often lifted me.
Please reblog if you’d like to spread the love, add your voice.
shamelessly wallowing in gratitude and tagging willy nilly hither thither... there are hundreds and hundreds of you. xo
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