Tom Gallagher

Ah yes. The one (Well, kinda two) episode(s) that started it all. Our lives were never the same after that. I immediately became a brony after the first minute. And of course, who could forget about... Pinkie: When I was a little filly and the Sun was going doooooown. Twilight: Tell me she's not. Pinkie: The darkness and the shadows, they would always make me froooooown. Rarity: She is. Me: Let her. This is gonna be great!

Apologies for the duplicate posts. Still trying to get used to how all this works. But thanks again so much for the comments and making me feel right at home.

Thank you! It took forever!

Thanks everyone for the comments. I feel very at home already!

Thanks everyone for the comments. I feel very at home already!!

It was May 2019. I was just beginning my Junior Cert exams when I became interested in seeing what all the fuss was about a certain show that had a gargantuan number of fans my age. Although I probably should've been studying, I flicked on Netflix and started from... well, the beginning and to quote a certain somepony, a spark ignited inside me. In that first two-parter episode, I saw everything that I needed in my life right there in front of me. And it all changed from there. Over that summer, I had kept all of it to myself. At the time, I was sort of afraid to tell anyone about it. The truth came out though when on holiday in Fuerteventura, my sister walked in on me when I was watching 'Fall Weather Friends'. After a long-winded explanation full of lies that I regretted about simply clicking the wrong thing, it blew over for a few months until one time when I was on Netflix with my parents and I let it slip that I was a brony. Understandably, they didn't know what it meant and thought that I had gone crazy. It wasn't until my mother looked up what it meant that they began to understand and support me. I was having a miserable year at school with rehearsals for a show that I wanted to be in going horrendously, a trip to a hostel leaving me emotionally drained and in pain and days of being completely ignored or bullied by fellow students. One day, all those feelings of isolation reached a peak and one day, I found myself on the top floor of the school building aching to dive head-first out the window and putting an end to all those negative thoughts. All of a sudden, the 'Smile Song' played in my head, followed by 'Flawless' and in that very last second, I stopped myself from diving out that top window. Simply seeing those six faces smiling at me just made me feel so warm inside. All those lessons, all those songs, all those moments, those magical moments, made my life worth living. Right now, I'm not ashamed of anything anymore because I know that the moment an episode starts and that theme begins to play, for those precious twenty-two minutes, nothing else in life matters anymore because I know that I am about to have the time of my life. I feel higher than Cloudsdale! In my life, nothing will come within light-years of taking the place that those six friends have taken. I used to wonder what friendship could be until they all shared its magic with me, and to that I say thank you to them all. I love them forever and now everything in my life is worth it.