Thank you very much, Patreon Community Happiness Team!!

Hey guys! Before you think why are you posting on a break month!? I need to tell you guys what’s going on.

Since it was a break month, I decided to give my PC a clean, however, as soon as I ended disconnecting one of the drives, I got a call: A friend was coming to show me his sick cheap PC he bought. So I just put the drive out and instead of cleaning, I wanted to check if I had some programs to install without having to rely on my internet connection. I plugged my drive in and when I checked, my PC didn’t boot. Long story short: my drive was dead.

After that, I thought about posting a message here on Patreon to let you guys know the bad news because I lost the progress on the Practice Model, but then it dawned on me, and when it did, I felt the worst case of anxiety in my entire life: I lost my password for my Patreon email account.

At some point, I started using random generated passwords, these passwords are made with alphanumeric characters and symbols, so they are a nearly impossible to memorize unless you actually dedicate tons of time to do it. Because I’m not dumb, or so I believed, I had a file with my random generated passwords. All of them. If you use Random Generated Passwords, then you should know this thing is a whole process, and I horribly failed to fulfill the absolute last step: Keep a backup of your passwords SOMEWHERE ELSE. My email password was one of those passwords.  

The worst part is, even though I didn’t lose some passwords, the fact that they require to click a link on my email to verify the login, made me effectively lose access to those sites as well.  

One of those sites was Patreon. 

This was on Friday. Friday and Saturday where horrible days for me. I hadn’t be able to have any proper sleep because the thought of losing access to my Patreon page, where I poured all my strength, love, sweat and tears for almost now two years, making those two years life changing thanks to all of you guys, gave me the worst episode of anxiety and depression I ever had in my life.

I wanted to wait until Monday, because as we say where I live, nobody works on Sundays, however, I needed to do something, because my current state was affecting me. So I made another email and send Patreon a note explaining my situation on Sunday.

I won’t lie. I’ve heard Patreon’s support is really good and they really take care about their users. However, once Monday arrived, and then monday night, and I didn’t get a message back from them, I started to cry. I started to believe this was the end.

Tuesday was a terrible day. There’s nothing worse than feeling like this and having to pretend everything is fine while you are on the streets when on the inside I feel like I’m falling apart. It was a very busy day, and I didn’t had a chance to check for a message until night, and I saw a message on my inbox. They said they were so sorry for my situation, and asked me some details to verify I am the owner of the page.

I provided them, but since it was already night, I decided to just try to get some sleep instead of waiting.

Today, I got a message on my inbox and I got the message that would single handedly put a ray of hope and fill me with a huge motivation: the email was changed and I was invited to log back. I confirmed it.

Because of this, I want to give a huge, huge, HUGE shoutouts, to  Lex and Alex from the Patreon Community Happiness Team, and by extension, A HUGE shoutout to the Patreon Community Happiness Team themselves for being amazing and helping me through these horrible days. You guys are the best. You truly do justice to their names: you really made me happy!

Seriously, HUGE shoutouts, I want them to be heard through the world and through the galaxy, because I put all my blessings on Patreon, and I put all my blessings on every member on the Team who makes Patreon what it is today: An amazing platform that makes a huge impact on Creators. Thank you very much guys!

There is something left to say however. I don’t know if you guys do the same and use random generated passwords or Password Managers, but if you do, Please, for the love of everything that is sacred to you, PLEASE, backup those passwords. The best analogy I have for it is You can have a house with all the padlocks you want, just be careful and have an extra set of keys, because if you lose them, you will realize padlocks only speak with keys, they don’t speak with humans.

Please guys, in this order: Backup your passwords, backup your work, then backup your data. Your Steam Library, your music, your podcasts, all of that can be recovered, but if you lose your passwords, NOTHING will be recovered.

All of my data is lost. All of my work is lost. But thanks to Patreon Community Happiness Team, I found something that I thought lost too: Hope. Thank you.

So Anxiety, Depression, I need to ask you to step aside for a bit, because now, I have work to do.