One year of a Ukrainian in Twitter

One year of knowing fantastic people from all over the world

Yesterday Twitter reminded me that my account had just completed one year of existence. From being someone inexperienced in social media and largely skeptical about its possible positive impacts, I can today say today it has been one of the most impressive adventures I've been through along all my almost 36 years.

I understood that the war demanded a different approach to every Ukrainian citizen, not only to our political and military bodies. After one month of the Russian invasion and with a life under so many hindrances I've talked so much for such a long time, prospects of a prolonged conflict were on the horizon and I needed to sketch a plan to ensure a supply of good energies and bypass my emotional fragility.

I don't know how, but I managed to take my introspection aside and opened the Twitter account and the blog without knowing exactly what would happen. I wanted to do my part as a citizen by spreading the world Ukraine was strong and needed, but I was in a desperate need of something more than that: I needed human contact, a compassionate, personal and friendly human contact.

 

That was a moment everything involving the war made me feel in a prison inside myself, so I needed to remember I was a human. I needed to find nice people to talk, to share, to write, to have anything that reminded me of a human experience.

I didn't exactly need the support by being Ukrainian, I needed people who look at me as a human, as a person, of course with the level of empathy expected by dealing with someone in a war-torn nation, but people who liked to write, to share any kind of ideas, experiences, commitments.

Hidden among the tweets, very soon, I discovered a treasure in the form of the wonderful friends I have made these last 12 months. Friends I have made in Twitter are such a rewarding experience to me that it's hard to find the correct words to express myself. My expectations when signing in Twitter were far exceeded because I never even realized so many awesome people were around with such an awesome, generous, kind and respectful attitude towards life.

My fantastic friends of Twitter are jewels that helped me to say confident and positive at those times when I was on the brink of hopelessness. And they were not a few times.

Friends from all over the world, from places I've never knew anthing about, places where now I constantly look for how is the weather only to have a little feel of how this friend is going through her or his life.

For you, my dear friends of Twitter, still in Twitter or not anymore, I dedicate this one year of account.

This account belongs to you, I'm only the operator.

And also thanks for the support for Ukraine, of course!