Lately, I’ve been feeling something shift.

Not dramatically. Not overnight. But in small, quiet ways. In the way I think. In the way I speak. In the way I move through my days and realise that I exist between languages.

Because the truth is, Spanish has always been just as much a part of me as English has.

I was born here. I live my life here. My routines, my conversations, the cafés I return to again and again, the friendships I’ve built over the years. This version of me exists in Spanish as much as it does in English.

And yet, until now, most of my writing on this site has been in English.

Not because I planned it that way. Not because I chose one over the other. It just happened naturally. English became the language of reflection, of storytelling, of putting my thoughts into words.

But Spanish has always been there too, quietly present in the background, shaping how I experience the world.

Lately though, I’ve started feeling the urge to let Spanish exist here as well.

Not as a translation. Not as a separate version. But simply as itself. Porque también soy eso.

If this space is meant to be honest, meant to be authentic, meant to reflect who I really am, then it only makes sense that Spanish lives here too.

Some days that might mean a full post in Spanish. Other days it might be Spanglish. A sentence that begins in English and ends in Spanish without warning.

Because that’s how my real life works too.

My friends in Madrid already know this about me. How easily I switch. How natural it feels. How certain emotions exist more truthfully in one language than the other.

For a long time, the internet made it feel like we had to choose one voice. One identity. One version of ourselves that fit neatly into a box.

But this space was never meant to be that.

This space was meant to be real.

And real life, at least for me, sounds like this: a little English, a little Spanish, and many things that exist somewhere in between.

Bienvenidos a esta mezcla.

So from now on, you might start seeing more Spanish here.

The English posts will continue, of course. That part of me isn’t going anywhere.

But now Spanish will live here too. Naturally. Authentically. Without forcing it.

Because this is my space.

And this is how I actually exist in the world.

— Raulito