14/12/2021
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To all the readers of The Disinfectant Project,
I hope you are all having a wonderful festive season and are looking forward to the new year. I wanted to write you a short letter to say thank you for reading and supporting my blog this year. It has been nearly four years since I began Disinfectant and I had no idea that my passion project would become what it is today, with a community of people who read and talk about many things we share, both the highs and the lows, the difficulties and the victories.
When I think of this time of year, I am confronted again by the number of things I have to be thankful for, like being in a place where I am warm and fed amongst people I love. I don’t underestimate how much of a blessing that is. I know the holidays can be a lonely time for a lot of people. I also understand that it is possible to feel lonely even amongst people, when one is battling depression or a myriad of other challenges. To be honest, despite everything, I am in a spell of worsened depression right now.
What helps is keeping busy and focusing on the blessings, acknowledging that they are a gift from God and that everything happens for a reason. I sometimes feel like a series of cells floating aimlessly in the universe, but this is not true, and one of the ways I remember this is by looking at those wonderful people around me, whose magic spreads through the lives around them, not by accident but because that is who they are and how they were made. I hope whoever is reading this can take some hope from this. You are not alone.
2021 may have been hard – we’re still in a pandemic after all. However, I am excited for 2022 and I hope you are too. I posted this today, the 14th, because one of my best friends was born on this day, and whenever it comes by, though she is on the other side of the world, I spend the day feeling grateful for her.
Please keep an eye out for more content in the new year! I have two posts scheduled for January and I can’t wait to share them with you all.
Merry Christmas!
Isabel