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• Becoming a Moderator on OtakuBoards, starting up my own production company with my best friend Dan.
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• I liked the Mysterious Cities of Gold before I did Pokemon, but Pokemon was the first Japanese Anime I really liked.
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Sunday, February 1, 2004

Benchmark
I'm sure everyone had at least some kind of a moment when they reached a significant point, in whatever it is they're doing. I guess the main example for this would be posts on OB and MyOtaku visits. Which is what I was going to yabber on about anyway.

I'm coming up to having 2000 posts on OB. I can't even remember what my 1000th post was about now, but I was pleased when it happened. Not ecstatic, but pleased. It wasn't as if I ever expected not to get to 1000, it's just... having confirmation that you've reached something you always admired is a rather floaty feeling. I'd always look at everyone else's post counts and think 'Wow, to have a number like that must be amazing'. And to a certain extent it does (or did) seem amazing- people with high post counts tended to have been there the longest and have the most respect and greater relationships with the other people online. But it's not everything by a long shot. I don't think I need to name names.

When I overtook Devidramon's post count- that was a shocker. I'd looked up at him as an Oracle of Digimon information and never thought I'd ever catch up with him. but I did. Next was KnightOfTheRose- I had overtaken him, but he's re-overtaken me now.

I guess... it's a very small thing in terms of its contextual meaning- some people just have a lot more to say or have more of a chance to say things than others in terms of posts. But it's deeper on a bigger scale. Growing up is a scary concept when you look ahead at everything you have to do.

I was always afraid of driving lessons because I figured I'd have to give up something I liked in order to do it. In some ways it's kind of true- I have slightly less time than I did before. But I still like and do everything I used to. I still go into toy shops to look for anything interesting to get, I still visit OB almost every day and I still like anime. I'd just never looked at it that objectively before- I'd always had a rather Peter Pan view of things, in that growing up was bad bad, especially as a lot of the things I have now mean a lot to me.

I don't think it's possible to completely leave anything behind, as much as you may or may not want to. Even regrets aren't always necessarily bad (although they are rather annoying when they plague you late at night)- if nothing else, you can learn from them. I guess the best thing to do is not to really dwell on everything that has happened for risk of becoming nostalgic or severely depressed, but still keep it close if you need it.

I have a habit of dwelling on some of the really silly mistakes. ones that might not even matter too much but I shouldn't have done anyway. Usually they're ones I know I could have done something about,even like the phrasing of an email or saying something when I should have kept my mouth shut. Really, really small, stupid things annoy me the most. I've no idea why- they're so small and stupid they probably don't even have an impact on anyone concerned. It doesn't last long, though. But some people can get really hung up over the past- it's not such a good idea to do that, unless you're being objective.

My, that was thoughtful.
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