When I started out in Tumblr, the only people here I actually knew personally were maybe about a handful. Now I’m afraid to check; there are so many already. I’m scared that if I do count them, maybe I’ll get too self-conscious and leave. :|
It was freeing to just write even when the people who read it don’t know you. Liberating to express and know you won’t be judged. Or maybe that you will, but since you don’t know these people, you wouldn’t care. Exciting to reveal intimate secrets to strangers. I think there might be things here that I wouldn’t actually tell anyone else, they’re just buried under the masses of posts I submit every week. I feel somewhat safe assuming that nobody in their right mind will successfully sift through my thousands of posts to find the really important ones. Reblogs can mean so much more than simply just being a reblog, if that makes sense.
It’s different now.
