Personal update and lots of gratitude

Hello my dears, how are you this day? I hope you are doing great. I just wanted to make a post to thank you for being here, for making this project possible and for listening to the content that I create. I know I always say this on my update videos and social media, but I feel it's important that you know how valuable you are to me.

It has been almost a year since I started doing this. I remember I was very insecure about my accent, my deep as hell voice, and even my tight schedule before coming out and creating content for everyone to see. But I knew that I loved this, that I wanted to make it a reality and that I just had to let my creative side take control and produce audios for the public.

Today, at only one week away from the first aniversary of this project, I feel completely grateful and thankful for all of you, for helping me not only continue doing this work, which I found to be my passion in life, but also for teaching me a valuable life lesson. That it is possible to have a dream and follow it.

I would not have been able to grow as a creator and as a person this way if it wasn't for the support and love you all have given me during this last year. You help me feel like I do things that matter, you help me put food on the table for my family, and you give me hope for a brighter future in this life.

I know that I am basically an entertainer, just a man behind a microphone who performs stories and does his best to provide good experiences to his audience. But you have no idea just how happy it makes me to be able to be just that. It is a dream come true to me...

And I don't want to be too sentimental, to bore you with my feelings or be somehow repetitive, but my life changed tremendously when you all came into it and I can't thank you enough because of that.

Right now, my current situation has changed again and I basically have this project as my only source of income now. There's been problems at the company I... well, used to work in, and they let go of many employees, and I was the last one standing... till now.

Old Dareon would be panicking right now, but the person I am today, which you all helped grow and improve, can see this as an opportunity. I'm not gonna lie, I am afraid, but I have faith that with hard work and dedication, I will be able to continue supporting my family and my project with strength. I will put my efforts and dedication into making this work, so I will take a chance and try to make this into my career.

So, here's the current situation. Patreon has become my only job now. I don't know for how long or if this is somehow an unexpected jump at the new content creator career that I always wanted, but its what happened. All of you know that my dream is to dedicate myself full-time to this, but in order for me to do that, I have to be able to pay for everything in my house... which I hope I will manage to do.

I am still not there with the number, but maybe if I'm positive and believe in what I do, the goal will be reached sometime in the next months and I will be able to do this for a living without worrying too much about it.

So, basically: Good news is that I will have extra time to work on the audios each day, but the bad news are that my financial situation is more difficult to me now. But hey, that's not gonna bring me down or stop me. If anything, I will see this as an oportunity to get stronger and share even more things with you all, always hoping things will work out for the best.

Also... I know this text is getting too long, but this is the best way for me to communicate all this. I tried recording but my voice was cracking... and I sounded too emotional for my taste.  

So, my beloved patrons, I needed to share all of this with you because you are the wind beneath my wings. You are the reason why I believe in myself more than ever and why I feel happy and blessed for being able to do this work.

And I felt like I needed to share this with you all, cause keeping it all to myself felt like being dishonest with you all somehow. You are one of the most important parts of my life and I want you to know that.

So that's the news I have. Pretty much a behind the scenes kind of post, but with some very much gratitude towards you.

Thank you all so much for helping me. You have no idea how much it matters to me to have you here.

I'm sorry if this was too long to read or if you don't like these kind of endless/personal posts. I apologize, but I felt you deserved more than just one paragraph. I'll try to make an audio next time I have something so long to say, but this time I just couldn't speak normally.

That being said, I will continue doing my best to create content you all enjoy and I will always be here, one message away if any of you needs me.

I love you, each and every single one of you. Thank you very much for reading, it means a lot.

Dareon.