1.5K Followers at 15, All Thanks to You Guys! 🎉🎉🎉

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It’d be nice to say, “I can’t believe this!” or “OMG I don’t know how this happened!?” but what else can I say if that’s what I exactly want to.

So, thank you! Thanks for reading. Thanks for commenting. And thanks for all of your support. All of you have been absolutely amazing!

You know, this article is totally unplanned. And why am I saying that?

Well, something interesting (and random) just hit me.

“I’m 15. And it’s been 1.5K.” Not quite same, right? But similar? Um-hm! A bit.

Oh, 15 is like the beginning and ongoing for so many different things for me. I just can’t believe—

• I started writing online (on Medium).
• Read the whole The Kissing Booth 3 in 24 hours.
• Binged watched the whole night for the first time, not to say it was The Kissing Booth.
• Lived far from home for the first time.
• Read a lot of good books at 15 which I’m sure that I’ll feel great (and lucky) about in future.
• Planned and went to movies with friends within just 30 minutes—for the first time, obviously—at 15. It was fun.
• And a bunch of other things (one I’ll definitely tell you some other day, but not now). Oh, and 1.5K followers on Medium at 15, all thanks to you guys.
• And last, but definitely not the least, I found the amazing Medium community and all the amazing writers, readers, stories, and everything—also at the age of 15.

So, yes, it’s been a great year. I discovered some real cool things and some not-so-awesome things as well this year.

But it was one hell of a ride. And a great teen year, too, to say the least.

I’m going to be 16 soon, and that’s making me ‘nostalgic and sad’ and ‘can’t-wait-to-see-what’s-around-the-corner and happy’ at the same time.

Teenage things, right? There’s simply so much going on.

I don’t want to stretch this article long and quickly want to thank some of you guys who I can remember at the moment. Nevertheless, I’m grateful to all 1.5K of you and can’t thank you enough.

Thanks for being there. It really matters a lot. Thanks also for hearing me and I hope my words never let you down.

Thanks to Dr. Preeti Singh, Sara Cansino, Sara Burdick, Bhavya Raj, Shruthi Rajaram, and Saanvi Thapar for reading my works. I get a lot of notifications of you guys. And that’s such a motivator.

Next up, editors of all the publications I regularly submit my story to, and they very generously accept, and correct if anything’s wrong, and publish it: Squeeze the Avocado of Counter Arts, Dr Mehmet Yildiz and Dr. Preeti Singh of Illumination and Synergy, Burk and Kristina God of The Shortform, Stephen Muskett, M.S.Ed of Age of Awareness, and Robert Ralph of New Writers Welcome. Thanks for being so generous.

To all of 45 email subscribers. I hope you’ve made it upto here, and I wanna thank you guys too for opting in to receive my posts. It means a lot!

Thanks Josh Balerite Acol for publishing my first ever article in any publication, and to Dr Mehmet Yildiz for accepting me into it. It was the start of something new for me.

I love reading you guys (and pubs): Yana Bostongirl, Carrie, Niharikaa Kaur Sodhi, Masterclass Notes, Saanvi Thapar, Tom Kuegler, Burk, Tom Fenske, and my Top 3 pubs: The Writing Cooperative, ILLUMINATION, and The Startup.

A big thank you to all the other writers and readers of the platform for building such a vibrant community.

It’s been such a wonderful journey thus far. And thanks to you guys for making it happen. Until next time, bye! 👋☺️🧡

Vritant Kumar

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