Wake Up Call

To many people this fandom is stupid, they see it as a bunch of guys who are gay because they like a show about talking ponies that was designed with little girls in mind. What they are failing to see is what society, even some bronies, do to something wonderful like this.

Yesterday I looked around on the internet with a friend, and almost every website I went to had some sort of advertisement about porn, alcohol, cigarettes, or some other dangerous, albeit legal, substance. It's a shame that, as a male run society like ours, that almost everything reverts to sex. My niece was taken out of her school by my sister because they were trying to push sex ed of kindergartners. What does that say about our future when all we can think about is that next fix in our lives, when on TV we are going to see those next naked girls, and its getting to the point that a movie shows all of the female body, not just the top.

When I was younger my mother always talked about when she was a teenager that they were different. Sure they did what they could to get into a girls pants, but they had more character, they were more kind, more professional.

I cried when I realized that I was just like everybody out there. I looked at women with that lust in my eye, I raped those women in my mind, and I loved it. I hate myself for it, and that was why I joined the military, I wanted to change, I wanted to touch my own heart and see what was inside. Now, I'm more happy than I have ever been. I am true to myself, when I write, I feel more free, like I can do what I want. I've come to realize that nobody may ever read my work, I may die before I can share my vision with the world, but that doesn't mean I have to stop trying. Ever since I was a kid I have loved to write stories, magical stories about far away lands and battles that always tested the hero to the extreme, I have loved to do silly voices with my friends ever since I could talk, but I have always lacked the drive to do anything with it.

Well I say no longer, I want to encourage people to change their lives, to do what they want to. I was inspired by the latest episode of Friendship is Magic, it taught me a lesson more dear to my than any other, self expression. Like what happened in the end with each dress going to a specific pony, that is the way all art should be. Instead of writing a story about something that everybody else has, you should come up with a new idea. Don't stick to the cliche, break through them and create new ones. Just because you're afraid somebody else may have done it, try it, if they did then try again with something new, inventive.

A few days ago, when I was talking with my grandmother, I came to a realization. I've never heard it said before, not in TV, not in books, not in movies, but I feel it should be said. We are as unique as our mind let's us to be. It's not the body that makes us unique, but the mind. You are only ever limited by what you think, what you strive for. What you think, what you say to yourself in your mind, nobody else will ever think the same way...