It's my 5 year anniversary of joining the forum!
You know, I'm in a pretty reflective mood these last few days, but I'll spare the big speech, that I would normally do (edit this was a lie). You never know what your choices will lead to. Of course there is a lot between joining a message board in your last year of high school to post your art pictures and going to Kansas half a decade later to meet your online friends you met here. Which is basically the biggest thing you can do in this context. When I think of all the big moments in the last 5 years of my life they can connect back here in some way. When I read my past posts it's like looking at where I was in my head at those times. I'm good at remembering dates and "eras" in my life, so this works out anyway. This forum hasn't been exciting since 2016, but that doesn't matter. It's a home base I check everyday and post, mostly about music.
It's strange to think the biggest thing the forum did for me was get me to make my own music, but that's the nature of it all eh. It's just like this kind of pop in and see what's up kind of things, everyone has their own things whatever it is. and maybe we all have some kind of youthful dream when we join and then growin' up happens and now, damnit what am I meant to do to make it through my 20's successfully? If you read my first post it's a bit different from me now, I used to think I would get to where I wanted to be, in a matter of time. I used to draw thinking some sort of magic would happen and I'd suddenly get somewhere, like in early 2014 when I would listen to "Under Star" the first Hajime no Ippo intro before I started drawing like, boom this is it. I used to jam along to Ac/Dc songs in my basement thinking I'd suddenly be on stage with a band. and then I realized, nothing happens unless you yourself make it happen. and nothing comes to you if you don't allow it to, or even open yourself to try.
I have discovered the most about life that I have yet this year, and perhaps I will talk about that a bit more on New Years, but I haven't found out many things we all find out one day in our own way. and I can say that unlike any other message board I've ever been on this forum, no the people on this forum have had some kind of mark on me. There are always those little things that inspire us to do whatever, be it just putting together a song of terrible phone recordings and seeing where it goes or seeing something that makes you go "ya I need to do that".
Seeing as I joined the forum when I was 17 it's strange to think what those 5 years represent and how bits of that have been logged on here, as I'm sure is the same with other people. Even if it's a playlist I posted in 2015, and it has the same songs like "I'm Only Sleeping", "Summer Song", "take@chance", "Emotion" etc. it's all little bits that really only mean anything to me but are here anyway.
This is mostly just meaningless word barf, but I kind of wanted to do this so...I did it. There you go, just some words about this and that. 5 years of being on this forum, and active for every month of that, well besides the one month I didn't post in 2014, I did it to see if anyone would notice I was gone, how pathetic my thoughts where for that. So ya whatever, another year, now 5 years, half a decade, whatever you want to call it, that time has passed since that afternoon I was like, "let's find a manga art forum to join" and somehow this one, with my first impression being one of Lego's old avatars and his "real life has wack graphics" personal text, was the one to join.
Well, neat.
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