So, we're all happy talking about ponies and how they've changed or bettered your life in some way or another, but I have yet to hear the story of a brony before he or she found the show, or what they went through in the first stages of... um, lets call it the second birth.
My story isn't all rosy, I was cold hearted, bitter poisoned by, well what society has turned into. Sad, lonely and depressed, maybe I'm over doing it... but I'm not, friends, sure I had and have friends but we were or at least I was very distant out of reach, I was unable to fit in. Family life, sad to say it was the same -it still is but I'm fixing it- all run by computers you see, even now I can't help thinking about the device I am using to tell you this, but this world is run by machines.
The first time I saw the show... the color's filled my dull grey life, bringing heat, strengthening my hopes and painting my dreams. To me it wasn't just a show, it felt real, it is real. I'd spend my nights thinking, placing myself in their world, joining them in their adventures and I'd spend my days zoned in, fixed on how the life I live felt so surreal and fake, no one knew the life I lived, among them I sit and talk to my true friends. Am I crazy, no, I just found sanctuary.