Well to be honest, I had no idea I was getting into something that would effect my life when I started watching the show. It started when my 19 year old sister and all her 20+ year old friends all got together and started watching it as a joke and ended up really liking it. I was thinking nothing of it at this point, but I had told myself I would check it out... I never really did. About halfway through the school year, one of my former friends had started talking about the show, being curious of what he was talking about, I asked him. He said that he was talking about this one show about ponies. I still didn't think much of the show, up until I say it on the recently watched section on netflix. I watched the first episode and I really liked it! I ended up watching season one in about three days time. I was addicted to MLP. I started looking for merc the I could buy on amazon. I actually had a connection to some of the characters, and some of the situations I had gone through. It made me learn to love myself for who I was and tolerate people in my life I couldn't stand. It had actually helped me with some of my anger problems that I only knew I had. I had literally thought of hurting my sister severly in the past, these thoughts were soon starting to disappear. I returned to school to tellall my "friends" of the gem of a show I had found, they laughed at me and started to talk to me less and treat me as an outcast. I few of my friends actually supported me though this and I eventually showed them the show and both of them are also bronies as well.This simple tv show helped me seperate my true friends from fakes, who would abandon me at the first sign of displease. The show changed my life for the better and made me realize something I hadn't really thought of before, be yourself and don't let anyone stop you from doing just that. Sorry for going off topic but I just wanted to put that.