Everyone has different goals and different milestones in life. 

Some are bigger than others. Some are smaller than others. In each person, the small milestones might be a big milestone for someone and a big milestone might be a small milestone for others. 

When you first start working up to milestones. You have no idea where you’re going. Sometimes you don’t even have those huge milestones in mind and just going with the flow of things in a sense. But when you reach a milestone it’s a proud feeling and a damn I did it type thing. 

As I have talked about before and I think one of my first blog posts on here. I talk about my writing journey on Wattpad and what it was like. I talked about my biggest books and my smallest books. https://shygirlvibes.com/my-journey-writing-on-wattpad/

I remember first writing that book when a friendship ended and I was very hurt and I needed something to do. So I started writing a book. Looking back on this book it’s kinda embarrassing and I pray to the universe none of my family and friends read it. Anyways I started writing this book and from the first day it was published on Wattpad it blew up to 500 views. My other stories took months to even get to a hundred so 500 was pretty good. 

When I tell you. I have no plans for this story. I had no idea where I was going or what my next step was. The only thing I had in mind was I wanted to get some of my writing pieces out there. (Believe it or not, I didn’t know I wanted to be a writer till years after). So every day I posted a new short story. To skip the boring parts I wrote it from grade ten 2018 till I graduated high school in 2020. So I wrote this story for a while. But as I went on I didn’t post every day due to mental health and writer’s block. As I wrote I celebrated each milestone. My 1k reads milestone. My 10k milestone. My 25k 50k 100k than 500k.

Like I said I didn’t think my story would ever grow to be that big. As the numbers got higher the more I celebrate the more I wrote the more I felt inspired to write and to keep going with this book even though I had no plan. Ending the book was hard but it came naturally to its end and I was very proud of what it became and where I was leaving it. As I stopped publishing the book and writing The End the book still grew. 

Years after it ended well 2022. It reached a million reads. On the 27th actually. When I first started I never ever thought I would reach a million. Even as the book ended I didn’t think that was possible. 

You see we all want to do stuff and we all what to reach these milestones. All my milestone was is to get some of my work out there not a milestone for a million readers. 

I guess this blog post is about is that you can work hard and take those breaks for your mental health and you will reach those milestones and you will reach the milestones you weren’t even looking at. 

The biggest thing I can add to thatis with very milestone. CELEBRATE. Be proud of yourself.