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Bookstagram, or the book community, has been a really big part of my life for a really long time. I started when I was 14 and I had a blog that I shared with three of my friends at the time. I'm the only left. Or was, because last year I decided to stop posting.

Maybe I wasn't the one who decided it, and life did, but since then I've been wondering if I should open a brand new blog with a different kind of content that I wasn't sure would fit the old blog.

Not too long after I started with the blog, –well, a few years later–, I found bookstagram. I saw these beautiful photos featuring books and I felt like I wanted to do the same. So I started my bookstagram account.

At the time I was the only one left that was managing our blog. And could do more things without consulting the others, so I had a bit of freedom to feature whatever I wanted and the photos that I liked. I do have to admit that after a while I decided to restart with the account since I wasn't too happy with how things were turning out. I didn't like the content that I was posting, so I restarted.

Like all accounts, mine has also been evolving through the years, we as persons change and that means that what we like and what we like to share could change and vary. Personally, I think my account has gone through many phases, and I've reached a point where I'm happy how things are. It's simple, and maybe not everyone likes it. But so far I am happy, and I like it, which, in my opinion, is really important. Because if you don't like what you post, how do you expect others to like your work?

Until now I thought that I had to publish every day, so I struggled with it as well. I needed to have more followers and I needed to have more likes. And I was foolish to think like that. Mostly since I joined the community because I wanted to share what I liked, and even though the amount of followers you have is important, I was clearly a tad obssessed with it.

Last year things changed.

My life got to me, things, in general, got to me, and social media was the last thing on my mind. Last year I had to make major decisions that affected my life and that scared me to death. And while I was settling down, deciding what to do next, bookstagram was the last thing I thought of. I did post sometimes, and I tried to stay active, but I just couldn't.

At the end of the year, my life wasn't settled completely but I really wanted to come back, so I told myself that I was going to post whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.

Now I enjoy the content that I'm creating, and although sometimes I struggle with what to write in the caption I enjoy myself. I still struggle sometimes with things related to the account, but I remind myself every day, that those things aren't important, or not that important. Thanks to this amazing community I get to know, every day, a lot of wonderful people. And I couldn't feel more blessed.