Happy new year, my friends!! Welcome to this year, which hopefully will be a better one!!
The world may be having many changes and that have been creating many mixed emotions on people, sometimes we lose hope for the future, and we don't even want to plan things because we really don't know how things are going to change next.
This 2021 I learned even more things, we need to move forward no matter the obstacles that life put in front of us, we need to fight our fears and do the things that we really want to do no matter how, after all we only live once!
Thanks to all of you who made this year possible for me, without you, I couldn't be walking through this path as smooth as I'm doing, I always try to pay the kindness of your amazing contribution to make this dream come true, that's why I'm always trying to be so grateful and show this gratitude with each one of you. I really love you, thanks for being part of this amazing clubhouse!!
Let's keep painting smiles on people, we all can help with that, little actions can make a huge difference. And I also got to learn that this year, when I thought I was only being nice with someone random, and I had no idea for them it was something huge. I have a couple of examples of this, that I really want to include as experiences on my journal about my last trip, but I haven't gotten the time to write it but I can write them here before I forget about them.
The first one was at ANW, someone stopped by in my artist alley table, and told me he got to meet his partner at one of my panels some years before, when we were doing a drawing activity and I put them on the same team, they had a lot of fun there and created a tight relationship between the two of them, and now they even live together.
Then the other one was at MFF, when I got to meet three friends who I had only talked online during the pandemic, they three are from England, so it was very unexpected for me to see them at MFF. The 4 of us were in fursuit and I wanted a picture of us, I wanted to stop a random human so they could help us, but oh surprise, the human I stopped was no one but Adler the Eagle (in his human version), he recognized the 4 of us and we were hugging and such before I asked formely if he could help us to take that picture. He did, and while he was taking that picture, I could see another fursuiter trying to take a picture of us, he seemed very excited to see us so I invited him to join our photo shoot, of course he accepted and he gave his phone to Adler. Days later he posted those picture, saying that we made him a life experience inviting him to join with us to that photoshoot, that he was completely in tiers to that! You can see his Tweet here:
https://twitter.com/ScruffyDupe87/status/1468343644604317698?s=20
And if you scroll on the messages, Theadore Rabbit pointed at him that it was Adler who took those pictures, something that he never knew that he had given his phone to Adler, and that made his experience even bigger! XD
It really made my convention knowing this little detail of how super special he felt after this tiny little nice action I thought it was cool.
Also...thanks to all of you for helping me to fund my book, I know it was not only you, but a big part of the community who was really interested on this project to be funded, which was also a very big highlight of my year. But I could see most of you supporting this project, thank you so much for this!! Art and Biro are very grateful with all of you!!
So...now, to start this year with your favorite paw and let's make this a great one!!
Once again, thank you so much for being an important part of my life!!
*panda hugs to everyone*
Paco.
P.S You can download the new Full Resolution Pics on the attached file on this journal!!
P.S 2 This panda really loves you!