In thanksgiving, gratitude and farewell
This is a long open letter post, so for those who do not like reading long
posts, you don't have to read this at all or comment. You can perfectly move on right now
to find other posts to see and read. Any nasty and sarcastic comments will be immediately
removed. This is an important post for me, necessary for reasons I state below.
Thanksgiving Day has just passed, a day when thanks are given for all the blessings received in one's life. We don't have Thanksgiving Day in the country where I currently live, but I celebrated it when I lived in the US for quite a few years. It's a beautiful tradition that I have adopted and celebrate because it's a wonderful occasion to remember the good things we have, thankful and grateful that we have been blessed with them.
I'm thankful for the experiences in life that have helped shape who I am today, for the roads we travel in life are fraught with both good and bad. I choose to think the bad happens for the lessons we are meant to learn from them, and once we do, we leave them behind us. The good that we encounter is what we should always carry with us, as they provide us with the wisdom, strength and courage necessary to forge ahead with determination, focusing only on what is important and what will further help one grow. Armed with these valuable gifts, I look ahead towards the future with clarity and confidence.
I have many things to be grateful for and happy about; I'm going to be married very soon, and I'm ecstatic about it! The preparations have been a bit stressful, to be honest, the wedding planner and I are driving each other crazy with the last few details lol, but I'm enjoying every minute of it. Plus, we finally sold the house after renovating it for months (summer was brutal doing the renovations). This has allowed us to purchase the house in another European country that my fiancé and I have been after for 6 months. We fell in love with it as soon as we saw the house and property for sale, and so we put in an offer and haggled the price with them for months, and finally, our offer was accepted! Many transactions later, we now have the deed to the house that we can finally call ours. We'll relocate soon after our wedding and trip, and we're just crossing our fingers that the last few transporting of our things will all go without a hitch. International logistics is a bit of a pain, but it can't be helped; it is what it is. I'm a bit nervous about the prospect of moving somewhere new (literally, butterflies in my stomach!), but I'm also thrilled because we're embarking on a new adventure. Last but not least, for our honeymoon, my fiancé and I are traveling to NewYork to spend Christmas and the New Year in Manhattan, where I'll be celebrating my birthday too. I'll also see my old friends and former work colleagues there, whom I have not seen in ages except through our WhatsApp video calls. I'm literally counting the days for these beautiful, life-changing blessings to begin.
I hope that what I'm sharing will not be misconstrued and considered as bragging, sincerely, I'm not; I'm just sharing the happiness I feel for the blessings that have come our way. Thanksgiving Day happens just once a year, but I daily give thanks for the blessings I receive each day because when I ask in prayer, and they're granted, I don't forget to thank God for them.
Sometimes, though, with new beginnings come endings as well. This is my last post here on Similar Worlds.
I would like to thank Similar Worlds' Admin: Andrew, Nuno, and the team for their support and help in the four years I have been here. Thank you so much, I appreciate all you've done for me! I'm thankful too for the experience of being a member of this social site; for expanding my views through the varied points of view shared by many, for the music, the joy of reading poetry, seeing photographs and artwork, for the many moments of laughter and funny exchanges in our comments, which I have immensely enjoyed! Most importantly, I thank all the good people whom I have met here, for their support and the many advice they have given me through the kindness of their hearts, many of whom I consider as real friends whom I love for their decency as human beings and whose friendship I take with me from this place.
Not to sound like I'm making an Oscar award winning speech lol... but in a way, I feel I have won from being here. I have been able to express my creative spirit freely, sometimes serious, often silly. At least I hope to have made some people laugh, or maybe smile a little, with my quirky jokes that were shared with the simple intention of helping ease some burden we all carry by our living in a currently chaotic world. I need to address as well that I have suffered here too, as some may have seen, from the hands of a morally corrupt, sadistic individual without human ethics, I apologize if some were made to witness this person's ugliness due to his obsessive behavior towards me, yet I am thankful for having the wherewithal provided by my upbringing and integrity to have had the courage to stand firmly against the vile acts of hate and abuse. I am at peace knowing I didn't do to him what he did to me and knowing that I made the right decisions, which I'm proud of. For what it's worth, I hope the bad thing that happened to me here may serve as a warning for others to be careful and not trust too easily. Despite it all, I hope he seeks help; it's necessary that he does, and I hope he never does this to anyone again.
Much as I treasure the good moments I have experienced here, once I leave, I won't come back to Similar Worlds because I've already lived this experience and this chapter has closed for me. I choose to move on and continue my journey, embarking on new and beautiful adventures that will further add to my growth, learning, and love for life.
The bright side of having having passed through Similar Worlds is that I leave having learned that, regardless of each living our own lives out in the world, while here, we gather to give a little bit of ourselves, feeling free to share thoughts and anecdotes due to the freedom that virtual anonymity provides, otherwise judged and scoffed at out in the world, although sometimes that hapened here too, to be honest, but many of us fully grasp the concept and responsibilty of sharing only positive things which contribute to help make this world a better place.
We all come from diverse cultures, with distinct personalities( introverted, extroverted), with different convictions and ideologies, and coming from all walks of life, but here.... our worlds collide and align, forming a community based on the principle that while we may be different, we also share the same human condition of needing to interact, acknowledging the fact that in the grand scheme of things, we all, after all, share similar worlds.
I leave enriched by the positive experiences, and my heart is at peace. Again, thank you to all the special and extraordinary people, it's been a pleasure crossing paths with all of you. May you all have only great experiences.
I leave Similar Worlds with this. Goodbye everyone.
Be happy, be free and let your Inner Light shine!
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