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With 2019 coming to a close, we say goodbye to this decade. What are some of the most positive things that have ever happened to you in these ten short years?
I haven't really started thinking about my future that much until I was 15 or so so I can only really be glad about what happened in the last four years. This decade is half my life, after all.
I guess the best thing that has happened to me this decade, or rather the past half-decade, is that I got a good enough scholarship to my first-choice college. I wanted to get a full one but only manage to get 45% cause I couldn't accomplish all the requirements, still tho it was great enough. My family was in a tougher spot, economically, back then a year and two ago. I never brought it up but my parents bought a new smart TV recently as well as talk about plans for holiday trips (not for me tho, I can be a hermit as long as I get WiFi) so I'm just glad that we're pass that stage.
Another thing I'm grateful for is the internet cause I learned a lot of things from here. Especially an artist I love a lot, Porter Robinson. His song Shelter is probably what got me hooked on both EDM and anime, two things that make me so happy now. No matter how many times I relisten it I still love it. The music video for Shelter inspired me to wonder and wander throughout my imagination, so much so, that I've built up an entire world just from simply thinking "where can I go from here?" and, a bit later on, I also developed writing as a hobby thanks to that song. Funnily enough, it wasn't the music video that YouTube recommended me - it was FBE's youtubers react to Shelter video which made me look it up lol.
I still remember what happened then. We were at a cinema, wanting to watch a movie, I don't remember which. The Mall's wifi was weak up there but I barely got on. Then the video appeared in my recommended. The anime girl looked cute, so I clicked. I didn't have earphones at the time so I had the volume on low. Then I realize that they were talking about something, so I looked "Shelter" up. And barely a minute in the entrance to the cinema is open so I waited until home. I didn't have WiFi in my home at the time, also I had a phone with only 6 GB of free space so all the YouTube videos I had to download were only 360p. But the resolution was still enough to reach me. The next memories are fade, I'm not sure when I watched Shelter music video but I'm sure I watched it before the FBE reaction vid. My first thoughts were "huh cool animation". I dig down the comments, learning the story, reading about Rin's father's last message to her daughter after 7 years, theories about what's going on, what will happen to her, what happened to Earth, is there any story after this, the brilliance of storytelling and everything. I read all that and I was in awe. It gave me "a feeling of wonder". That is the only way I can describe it. I remember being so positively happy at that time. And then I watched the FBE vid and I'm glad that they liked it too. Eventually later on I hunted this "feeling of wonder" and got addicted on stories that tug on my emotions. And then I became a weeb lol.
That song definitely changed my life cause if it didn't exist, I wouldn't be talking here in this forum right now.
So what about you guys?
I haven't really started thinking about my future that much until I was 15 or so so I can only really be glad about what happened in the last four years. This decade is half my life, after all.
I guess the best thing that has happened to me this decade, or rather the past half-decade, is that I got a good enough scholarship to my first-choice college. I wanted to get a full one but only manage to get 45% cause I couldn't accomplish all the requirements, still tho it was great enough. My family was in a tougher spot, economically, back then a year and two ago. I never brought it up but my parents bought a new smart TV recently as well as talk about plans for holiday trips (not for me tho, I can be a hermit as long as I get WiFi) so I'm just glad that we're pass that stage.
Another thing I'm grateful for is the internet cause I learned a lot of things from here. Especially an artist I love a lot, Porter Robinson. His song Shelter is probably what got me hooked on both EDM and anime, two things that make me so happy now. No matter how many times I relisten it I still love it. The music video for Shelter inspired me to wonder and wander throughout my imagination, so much so, that I've built up an entire world just from simply thinking "where can I go from here?" and, a bit later on, I also developed writing as a hobby thanks to that song. Funnily enough, it wasn't the music video that YouTube recommended me - it was FBE's youtubers react to Shelter video which made me look it up lol.
I still remember what happened then. We were at a cinema, wanting to watch a movie, I don't remember which. The Mall's wifi was weak up there but I barely got on. Then the video appeared in my recommended. The anime girl looked cute, so I clicked. I didn't have earphones at the time so I had the volume on low. Then I realize that they were talking about something, so I looked "Shelter" up. And barely a minute in the entrance to the cinema is open so I waited until home. I didn't have WiFi in my home at the time, also I had a phone with only 6 GB of free space so all the YouTube videos I had to download were only 360p. But the resolution was still enough to reach me. The next memories are fade, I'm not sure when I watched Shelter music video but I'm sure I watched it before the FBE reaction vid. My first thoughts were "huh cool animation". I dig down the comments, learning the story, reading about Rin's father's last message to her daughter after 7 years, theories about what's going on, what will happen to her, what happened to Earth, is there any story after this, the brilliance of storytelling and everything. I read all that and I was in awe. It gave me "a feeling of wonder". That is the only way I can describe it. I remember being so positively happy at that time. And then I watched the FBE vid and I'm glad that they liked it too. Eventually later on I hunted this "feeling of wonder" and got addicted on stories that tug on my emotions. And then I became a weeb lol.
That song definitely changed my life cause if it didn't exist, I wouldn't be talking here in this forum right now.
So what about you guys?
