Levanten su copa conmigo, es mi Hiversario y lo quiero festejar! [ENG-ESP] Raise your glass with me, it's my Hiversary and I want to celebrate it!

Hello friends! Good morning! Today I'm speaking to every Hive Blog user, because I think this is the post I'm most looking forward to being able to do as a “balance”. Always so close to the beginning of the year, it takes me back to the summer of 2019, where my emotions were other and maybe I was another. Today marks 6 years from the date I opened my account and Little Sorceress slowly began to occupy a beautiful place in my days. I'm celebrating, it's my Hiver-sary number six! 😀

Having a birthday, like closing or opening a cycle, has some punctual meaning, and some very volatile meaning. I always say that it doesn't matter how long we've been here, but the importance we give to it, and how we make use and community in our ecosystem. But it is also important to recognize ourselves, and to see the road we have come this far. Personally, it always brings a lot of emotions and they are getting nicer and nicer. I have a personal sign on my desk that reads: “What a good day to be proud of all the progress I have made” I stop every day to read it and give thanks.

I recognize myself as patient, and accomplishing many things with myself. It is one of the key things that has brought me to where I am, to practice gratitude, especially when it costs more. I have gone through terrible times, it is true. It probably happens to all of us, the past year was not tame, and for that I am grateful. It taught me how valuable I am from the work I do to the value I place on my personal things. That what is inside does not change, even illuminates when outside there are only storms, and in that aspect Hive was a great companion for me, always keeping me close to those important things and giving value to that which makes us human, thinking, feeling. To clean the inside, to shine, to glow, to illuminate in dark nights.

We are defined by what we enjoy and where we are true to ourselves. It is hard for me at this moment to accompany this post with images, I would like to take pictures celebrating, although I am very happy eating the carrot cake, with some mates. A hot summer morning, I don't remember if it was like that 6 years ago... but it was a vertiginous summer, and although I didn't start immediately, the intrigue began there...

Among other achievements, although I already mentioned it, last year I achieved 6 months of uninterrupted postings. I reached this achievement by focusing my energy, even when it cost me a little more. The effort had an emotion that pays off every day, and that is, I never automated the Claim of the rewards, that's why I choose to click to claim them. I don't know if I have told you this before, but the thrill I get when I click on the Claim button and see my account grow, slowly but steadily, brings me enormous satisfaction.

To be honest with you and myself, I learn something new here every day. Sometimes I don't have time for everything I would like, and it even happens that many things I don't understand, but it's something I handle with patience, what I am learning, it's like when you learn to walk, first one step, then another. Then many steps and their route, and finally, start running, although you don't know the risks, you start jogging. In between I discover how to count and trust myself, start to give myself my times and my motives. Finding my motivation, where I enjoy sharing my experiences, my stories or my creations.

I'm sure when I do this post I'm forgetting some accomplishments, because I also record that I set out to do many things and clearly didn't accomplish all of them. But I did pleasantly finish my savings resolution with the Saturday Savers Club, passed all my Italian exams and continued with my genuineness filter to keep people near or far. I continue to talk a lot about some things that concern me, share and consult with more certainty on some issues. I start this year light, trying to alleviate the circumstances that sometimes overwhelm me and always seeing the emergency exit in situations that overwhelm me. Learning and going, always.

The road is long and learning to see flowers, landscape, enjoy the changes and shine those attitudes that define us in the face of adversity is an achievement in itself. I wish everyone to have a fun and joyful journey at Hive, to learn at their own pace and with their own needs. But most of all, may you enjoy and pursue those things that challenge you and fill your heart when you achieve them. My path is meaning this, to enjoy and learn about myself, and about Hive, about how to edit my photos, write my posts, create the stories, or the content, and always do it for pleasure. Everything in life should be a little bit like that, if it doesn't have your enjoyment, let it also not have your time, nor occupy place in your head.

Fortunately for me, today I invite you to toast to all the achievements and goals to come. Whether they are my own, or together. I recognize that the more I browse hive and the more people I see, with amazing stories and posts, with great ways to edit, or share, I see the pictures they choose, I see how we all grow together. It empowers me so much to be a part of Hive, to talk about what happens here, and to continue on my personal journey of growth. It's 6 years for me, but infinite connections and learning in the collective.

I send you all a warm hug, a slice of cake and invite you to raise your glass with me. I also thank you for your company and encouragement in every circumstance, surely there will be many more achievements to come, other years, and other times, but surely we will find around here, some hiver willing to walk a stretch of the road with us. The departure is always collective, so a hug that helps us all to continue, even though the year has just begun!