A) I felt like this blog needed it too.
B) I've grown so much closer to you two since then.
I don't have many friends, if I'm honest. I don't have very many people who I can share all my secrets with (or most of my secrets >.>) or many people who I can actually be myself around. When I'm with my school friends, I'm a much more diluted version of myself. I'm still me, but a more...censored version of me, let's say.
I started reading this series of books, and I found out there was a forum for these books. I began lurking in the shadows of this forum, checking every now and again to see if anyone had posted something funny or interesting. I then realised it wasn't enough, just watching this community grow. I wanted to be part of it.
I joined the forums. There were a few problems with my account at first, but it got sorted out, and I started posting in these forums. I began to get a sense of what I wanted to be on these forums, because most people are slightly different online as opposed to real life.
The biggest thing that happened for me though, was the fact I made friends. I started to realise I shared the views of certain members more than I did with others. There were these two members, called Leto and Skully >.>
I thought they were both hilarious, and bright, and fun.
I wanted to try out roleplaying, so I PM'ed Leto, and asked her if she'd mind doing a test Roleplay with me. She said yes, but our conversation carried on into an abyss of insanity that was only dampened when we reached the hourly PM limit.
I can't remember what sparked me to talk to Skully. I think I may have felt conversational, and Skully was the only other person online, so I sent her a PM, and it was the same story. I found myself literally laughing out loud at the things these two were typing on screen.
I eventually gave them my email address, and we began talking on MSN. We found out our likes and dislikes, we shared secrets, and we were extremely inappropriate >_>
That was when I noticed that I looked forward to coming online and talking to Leto and Skully every evening. I would get bored with the average conversations I'd have with acquaintances at school, and I'd come out of my shell when my fingers started typing.
I was closer to two people I'd never even met than I was with people I'd spent years of my life with.
And I didn't regret a thing.
(In a totally platonic way >.>)