On Coffeespoons' 3rd Anniversary

It's Coffeespoons' 3rd birthday! Three years ago, on this date, I made the first post of this blog live. I always have a certain fondness for that post whenever I read it. It's not one of those things I write that I cringe at (I have a lot of those), mostly because it was honest and I like the sense of history. I started this blog because I was bored and because I love reading.

Now, I am no longer bored. Haven't been for a long time. And I still love reading.

In my last 2 blogiversaries, it was my custom to outline my advocacies for the year, whether I realized it or not. If you care to check back on my first and second year anniversary posts, you'll see that it was always about reading and the Filipino reader. That hasn't changed yet. So, this year, I hope I can do more to help push reading and readers in this group of islands where I'm from.

This blog, which was meant only to allow me to share my love for reading, has been good to me. I know I often haven't shown it the love that it deserves, but I want to say that, since I started this blog, many things have happened in my life that led me to where I really wanted to go.

Because of this blog, I've met people from the book blogging community, both local and international. I worked up the courage to shift careers so that I could do what I enjoyed and prioritize what I wanted to prioritize. Eventually, this blog allowed me to express what I thought about the way readers are perceived (or not perceived) in my country. I was able to meet the other Filipino book bloggers and count many of them as friends. This blog helped me realize that a readers' conference is an idea that other people could get behind, too, hence the first Filipino ReaderCon. And I do believe this blog has been instrumental in helping me get the job I currently have.

But most of all, this blog allowed me to just geek out as a reader, to be unabashed about my love for or my dislike of certain books. And periodically, it provided me sanity. Come to think of it, I started it to preserve my sanity.

And so, dear blog, thank you for everything you have done for me. I don't know where life and you will lead me as I go into the 4th year of book blogging, but wherever it is, please know that I will forever be grateful for what you've already brought me.