trueatfirstlight

So I was reminded today of something that I think about a lot, but in the last few months slowly started to forget. And what is that thing? Dailybooth.

For those of you who don't know, Dailybooth was the blog that got me into blogging, even though I'm not sure it counted as a blog. I'd describe it as a twitter with pictures, but it was so so so much more than that.

Dailybooth was a community. I was in the lucky few that managed to gather a few thousand followers during the years that I had my blog with them, and I have never felt so a part of things as I did when I "boothed".

Because, on the surface, all I did was a take a selfie and write a few pages ranting about my day or things that were on my mind or things I'd been doing or pretty much anything, but that is what made Dailybooth special to me. For me, Dailybooth gave me the opportunity to write a diary online that I could share with other people and they could feedback to me as they wished. Of course, I didn't interact with every one of my followers, but the vast majority of them I conversed with regularly. To this day in fact, two of my absolute best friends come from Dailybooth, and no, I've never met them, but without them, I've no idea where I'd be.

Dailybooth offered me a space away from my usual life and friends, somewhere to feel at home and somewhere to be appreciated. I make no secret of that all of my self esteem and self confidence was largely supplied by my lovely followers that made it their duty to keep up with me and tell me to keep writing because they loved my posts and my honesty.

In fact, I even met my boyfriend on Dailybooth. After a year of speaking we finally decided to meet and that was almost two years ago. My life as it is now would not be the same in any respect had it not been for that one website that I dedicated so many hours to updating.