[BLOG] A Cynical Owl 2013 Wrap Up!
Okay, so we are like two days away from the New Year. Insanity! This year has flew by and I’m still amazed by all the wonderful things we been apart of! It’s been fantastic working with the people we have been working with this year. There has been so much positives that has happened which I’m blessed for.
I thought it would be great to post up some highlights from this year from The Cynical Owl. We get new viewers everyday and there’s so much content on the site that I thought a review of all the great moments will be perfect heading into the New Year. Thank you for all the submissions and comments! You guys have kept the site alive and I never thought it would get here this fast.
I’ll never forget the time me and Melissa launched this site and all the struggle we went through with the layouts and all the configuration. There were nights I wanted to cry because I couldn’t get rid of the stupid black box that covered up the comment section. Took two days to figure it out along with other plug in issues. WordPress was going to be the reason for my suicide. Somehow we managed to fix the site up, relaunched, and it’s been growing in numbers by the thousands ever since. I’m proud of this site. Maybe, it’s rather early that I say my thank yous since we are still in 2013 but on the New Year I’m going to found twerking in a bar downtown so I just don’t know if I will be able to post. JOKING. Kinda.I do want to thank everyone who has been or is apart of this company. They made awesome things happen. There are times when it got rough but we pulled through as a team. I’m grateful to see the value in teamwork this year because I never was one to do things as a team. I was more of a “do it yourself person” before The Cynical Owl. I really found myself and did some soul searching when I became a writer on her. It challenged myself in ways I never thought it would. It’s funny how life works out sometimes. You think that your life will amount to nothing because you’re sitting at home, talking to the same friends, doing the same things, pockets are empty and you’re just looking at the walls like “what the fuck am I doing?” That person was me. Never will I go back to the person. 2013 disciplined me to believe that way of life doesn’t benefit me or head me in the direction I want to go to. To all the people who fucked me over this year, I would to give a special shoutout to you. You made me a lot stronger and I was able to see the outcome of what hard work does.
To all the people who follow our journey and want to create one of your own, go out and do it! Start now. Fuck the second guessing and doubts, it’s all truly possible. You think people take a Black and Puerto Rican woman from the Bronx seriously? Most of the time, no. Do I care? No. Personally for me, those stereotypes will be broken by what I do, not what I say. We all have dreams and we have to shoot for the stars, who can but you?