5000 visits!

A few months ago I made a special post celebrating 1500 visits on this blog, a blog that I had created in 2006, a blog that for the first years I didn’t share it with almost anybody and that suffered an almost 5 years hiatus. Little did I know that just a few months later I would be here celebrating the unbelievable number of 5000 visits! It still amazes me that a lot of you come here regularly, that you take the time to read these crazy things that come out of my head, that more often than I would expect you identify with what is written…

It’s both scary and exciting when I look at the list of countries that most visit my blog and I find that countries like Russia, Germany or France are part of the top 10 when I don’t even know anybody who lives there.

I always thought it was scary to put myself out there, to share my pieces but now I’m starting to understand why so many people take the risk, because it means the world everytime someone praises your work or gets exactly what you mean. The feedback, comments like:

“Your blog (…) make people feel peace” (Annonymous)

“Really special, a very inspiring and introspective piece of work” (Annee Tromp)

“Como te compreendo. Como é bom voltar a ler um dos teus textos” (Marco Mateus)

“Continua a inspirar-nos” (Rita M.)

“I have thoroughly enjoyed browsing your weblog posts, after all I'll be subscribing to your rss feed then I hope you write again quickly! “(Annonymous)

“Continue writing, you are GREAT!!!” (KKaytano)

“Mais uma vez espectacular” (Raquel)

“Amei” (Bagaça)

“Compreendo tao bem!adorei!” (Mariana P.)

“Claro que conseguiste puxar a lagriminha de mim” (Tânia P.)

are just a small sample of how rewarding it can be to accept a challenge. So to all of you that visit, read, comment or share this blog with others a BIG thank you! Your visits and comments light up my day. The only thing I can complain is not being able to meet you all, to know your stories, what keeps you interested, not being able to thank each and every one of you personally, so this was the way I found to do it.

Thank you for visiting, please keep coming back! And if you have you own blogs let me know so I can check them out! J

Top viewed posts to check out if you haven’t yet:

-       Operation let’s build a house/Operação fazer uma casa

-       Humanitarian Work

-       Player

-       “A vida seria melhor sem...”

-       Family is Family

Some of my personal favourites:

-       And here we are again...

-       Friends

-       Move on

-       Tonight

-       Don’t call me perfect

-       It’s all about control and balance

How about you? Do you have any post that particularly got to you? Care to share?