The People You Thought Would Be Watching
When I started writing on Substack, I didn’t really tell people.
A few, yes.
I told my family in New Zealand. I told a handful of friends. My parents and my sister in Brazil knew.
But some of my closest friends still don’t know.
I think part of me wanted to protect it.
When something is very new, and you’re not entirely sure what it is going to become, telling people can feel strangely exposing. You are not just saying, I wrote something.
You are saying, This matters to me.
And somehow that feels much more vulnerable.
My parents don’t speak much English, so when I published my first articles…
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