Friday, September 24, 2004

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The turning point in my life…


Some thing that has changed my life ,there is a few things that I would write about that has changed my life I know there was a lot of little changes , but there was one very big one, one very big one This is where my story begins…

This happened when I was when I was nine years old and I started to watch anime, that was a normal change at first for me as a nine year old to be in to cartoons a little bit but anime a lot, but belive it or not that was the complete biggest turning point of my life , it was big maybe the biggest in my family’s history. Well I use to be a preppy little cheerleader belive it or not and I was very skinny and very girly (scary I know), After I started to watch anime I could not stop! first I started to watch an anime show called Dragon Ball Z then I started to watch anime witch caused a complete change of me and my choice of shows.

I feel that that was a big turning point in my life because how much that it has completely changed me it is just the very beginning but very important, if I might have never started to watch anime I could be a prep and a cheerleader I mean preppy , school sprit and every thing !, now that’s scary if you look at me now. But since I started to watch anime ,It has controlled my life and all that I do now is draw anime and watch anime and read Mangas, so do most of my friends also , but that is not all of my day to day life is only about ehh..40% anime but I will get to that later, and also if I have never watched anime I feel that I would have never developed my artistic abilities and they have came along way , you would not belive some of my drawings not how good they are but its cartoons now not many 9th graders draw as much as a three year old but I do ,but back to the turning point witch I doubt will take up two pages, I always thought of cartoons as “silly” or dumb before I started to watch anime but technically anime it not cartoons because of the level of skill and talent and detail in it, it is amazing and a lot of people don’t see that and think it” stupid” and even call it “gay” although it is not people just have to give it a chance before they judge it .

But ever since I started to watch it I could not help but like it there, for people including my friends ( old friends) made fun of me and ridiculed me that also put forth to my change of friends and life more to my like of anime it all sort of worked towards “my love of anime” you could call it. The more I liked anime the more I wanted it ,the more I wanted to watch anime the more I got in to anime. The more I got in to anime the more I relied on it because I did not have many friends at all in 5th and 6th grade because how “odd” I was as I was between preppy and otaku but many people don’t remember me as “preppy” because it was so long ago and don’t belive me but sadly I can prove it , so of course I went to anime and drawing I was basically in between two worlds my old life and the becoming of my new.

Then I started to watch [adult swim] and watch anime like “Inu-Yasha” and “Rurouni Kenshin” that’s when I started to enjoy drawing more and more anime and getting more in to it and this is now the beginning of 7th grade and as soon as I entered jr. high school that’s when I totally got new friends and was really in to anime and drawing that’s when I was almost done with my big “change or turning point in my life, I had what I wanted good friends hobbies I was so much happier than the fallowing two years.

In seventh grade I met some new people that are still my very good friends today told me about more anime and “Mangas” that’s a Japanese comic book that reads in traditional Japanese format . And they are great people they were the best friends I had since 3rd grade and are still my best friends .

then on I was 100% otaku that’s an anime fan but the change in my life was basically from going to a cheerleader to an “otaku” anime fan and that is a very ,very big change almost a complete personality change it was almost like I was a whole different person, my parents couldn’t belive it either that had a normal little girl that was in to all the normal stuff that a 9 year old was in to well sort of any way, after I really started to relies that I am a Japan -fan and a anime fan I noticed that I could draw better and better and ever since I was four I had a thing for drawing and I always liked to draw but I didn’t realize how good I am until I started to draw anime, and before that I always would draw in school and stuff but no one encouraged ,it I mean if u look at me now and look at me 4 or 5 years ago you would never think of me as one who would draw anime let alone draw and besides the same features in the face you would not even think we were related.

The “love” of Japan led to swords and Japanese arts like kendo and judo ,heighten mitsurugi, shohie-jen , Ninja and samurais now if you look in my room u know what u will see ?, swords throwing stars and anime, but I am as not as in to anime as I was but it still effected my life , it might effect my life again but who knows what will become of me and further changes but that was my biggest change of all.

Over all I am happy of my change in life it was weird though going from one point to another that is so completely different in every witch way you could imagine, but in the end I am content with it now that I think of it, I never really realized how much I have changed ,until this topic it was sort of hard to remember all of it but if you get the point of what I am saying I have changed more in the last 4-5 years than any one could ever imagine I know it was supposed to be something that was not as long of a period but this is the only change that has really changed my life.
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