I have given it much thought over the past month, and I’ve decided to give up on this blog entirely. I’m not deactivating; I’m just going to leave it be so that one day, I can come back to this place and remember the person who was once. After all, this blog is a storehouse of memories over the past years. It has been three years exactly, it’s about time I put it to rest. I’m not blaming anyone. It’s my fault, really, for letting my privacy be compromised this much.

But no matter, I’m not going to stop writing. I cannot give up what has become a part of who I am. I’ve fled into another home, into another place (in this same niche, nonetheless) but to where nobody, except those who truly know me, will know who I am. I hide beneath a mask, under a different name but I hope to be the same person, still. I want to see the world in a different view, with different lenses. I want to pick on the metaphors of the stories that people write and disect them like a frog, study the length and the rhymes of their poems, so I can learn through these words too. I want to appreciate more things that beg for the world’s attention. Even for just one moment, I want to be real, and anonimity gives me that reality. I decide to hide behind a mask because it is the only thing that makes me feel that I have the freedom to express what I think without anyone judging me. I feel braver, bolder, with a mask on.

And so, I flee. I hope that you would too, desire to see the world with a different point of view and appreciate the simplest things life gives. Or maybe find sometime, those things that will truly make you happy. Write. Pour out the beatings of your heart into the paper and breathe life into your words. Be more intimate with the people you love, and tell them the things you’ve always meant to tell them. Do not, even just once, regret anything. I do wish you well. I will still be reading your blog, keeping in touch with you in many ways. You may not recognise me then because I hide beneath the safety of a different name, but I will still be the same person who admired you, albeit discreetly, from the start just the same. ‘Til then.

Much love,
Moi Escalante