Ponies have changed me

[Finesthour 7,287]

Because of ponies, I found the love of my life.

 

I would say ponies made my life-

 

[Larko 77]

It has helped a lot with stress, I am taking 20 credit hours at my college so when I come home and watch MLP I feel a lot better!

[Stoner Spike 185]

Ponies have changed my life, If it wasn't for ponies I wouldn't of taken my art career persuit more seriously. And I also wouldn't of tried harder to make friends (using the lessons from the show). In the past 6 months of being a brony I have made tons of friends and even a few fans of my art work. It is trully a great feeling and I just want to share this with all of you because I mostly want to hear your stories, how has being a brony changed you? Is the outcome good, or bad? Has it changed you in anyway?

 

Much better. One thing, though...there's a difference between friends and acquaintances. Real friends you can count using your fingers...

[Scootaloo™ 29]

Much better. One thing, though...there's a difference between friends and acquaintances. Real friends you can count using your fingers...

 

Indeed, if I counted my true friends I wouldn't get past 2 or 3 fingers.

[Shadow Stallion 436]

Yeah, I used to be depressed, not sure why.

Then, ponies invaded my life and made me happy again:D

 

Also, bronies inspired me to actually start making music, which I am currently doing.

It's hard though, but I ain't giving up!

[Twi Rubix 726]

Awesome, Scootaloo! This show really is a life changer...

 

It didn't really change my life majorly, but Im glad Im on these forums to find something to talk about every day.

Edited February 16, 2012 by TwilightRubix

[Stoner Spike 185]

Indeed, if I counted my true friends I wouldn't get past 2 or 3 fingers.

 

I counted 3. Maybe 4, but the 4th I haven't talked to in a month...

 

Yeah, I used to be depressed, not sure why.

Then, ponies invaded my life and made me happy again:D

 

Same. I used to be a bitter self-centered heartless kid.

And then ponies.

[Zoop 8,384]

 

Did some thread merging - we had a couple of a very similar nature floating around here and there that have now come together as one.

[Scootaloo™ 29]

Did some thread merging - we had a couple of a very similar nature floating around here and there that have now come together as one.

 

oh boy! SUPER THREAD!

[Skullbuster 1,906]

my thread has become 20% cooler

[Akemi Homura 7,680]

I kind of had a Twilight Sparkle moment back in 2010 (in May) where she realizes what friendship really meant. Before that time, I was always moody and didn't expect anything from anybody. I had attitude problems. And then during that month, I started feeling a lot better about myself because I then had a lot of people around me who shared some of the same things that I do, most notably sports teams. And during that time, our teams were doing very well. It not only taught me that teamwork wins games, but I also realized what it meant to be a true friend and a team player.... even though we didn't play those games on TV. I finally felt a real feeling of joy as I realized just how much I truly cared about those guys.

 

So, hope my story wasn't too cheesy... but it felt great.

[Twi Rubix 726]

All these threads about how MLP changed everyone.... Why not me? Bear in mind that mine is not nearly has emotional or deep as others. Its just a little story.

 

For the past couple years, my interests in life have been.... kinda stale. The things I mostly did was play video games and watch things on my computer. I mostly just go to school, work, go home, and play games.School wasn't that great either. Im sometimes mocked because of my game obsession, and I make few friends.I had nothing to do, and started to question what I'm doing. I mean, Games are my peak of interest, but I just did the same thing all the time. Almost nobody liked the same things I liked, so it was hard to find some friends with common interests.

 

I had a friend that I kept arguing with too because we have little in common. But then he introduced me to Friendship is Magic. I watched it, and liked it, thought it was Okay. I was still in my stale routine, but then I decided to watch a few more episodes, then I really liked it. I felt strange with it at first, but slowly got used to it. Then I found what a huge fanbase the show had. The community was pretty cool, and I wanted to be part of it. First thing I did was join these forums, and began to realize the fanbase. Best part, it felt fresh. I mean, since when do you have Adult Males like a show like this? It is one of the best cartoons I have seen in a long time, and the characters are amazing. It all felt new and interesting. I recently started High School, and started to make friends after seeing the show. It made me happy for some reason

 

Now with FIM, I can chat with other fans, see art, music, etc. Its also one of the nicest communities I've been in. I felt kind of accepted here, and there's always something new in the world of MLP to see and talk about. It just all feels new, and is one of my best interests. It just makes me wish I knew alot of people IRL who likes MLP...

[Strafe 594]

Well said bro, **brohoof**.

 

I wish I had at least one friend who watches mlp. My neighborhood isn't too open minded to things so I have a lot of insecure people who probably wont even give mlp a try even if I tell them.

[Smokin'HotRarity 182]

Since today is my 1 month anniversary of being a brony ( nov 17- dec 17) I think this is a good to say this

 

Before I became a brony, I was a dark cynicle person, and I had come to expect failure from every thing I did, it got worse when my grandmother died a year ago(some time in October or November) after that, it became very hard to care about other people, when people talked about how bad there life was, I told them to suck it up and deal with it, and I was very insensitive and intolerent of other people, that was probably due to the fact that I was bullied from 1rst to 9th grade,

 

But ever since I started watching ponies, Ive felt much happier, the taste of successes I've had with how well my abridged series is going so far has far excededed my expectations(I thought it was going to fall flat) I've found my self laughing more, and I think I'm rediscovering how to care about others again, and joining this forum has probably been the best that's happened to me since I discovered the internet

 

Thank you all

Maybe one day I'll tell you how I became a brony, thats an interesting story

 

Well, you could start by maybe removing the desert eagle from your sig...

[Envoy-in-exile 101]

It's the first TV series which I actively and continuously discuss about with others (online). This is also the second place I hang out regularly on the internetz where I can just be myself. The first one is a cynical dark place with a negative outlook on life though, so this makes here the only positive place. I'm new to both this place and MLP:FiM, so I wouldn't call myself a brony yet. I hope that it will make some sort of positive effect on my outlook towards life, but only time will tell. I really hope that the brony community isn't just another passing fad though.

[Victoria and Co. 782]

So, before I became a brony, my life was painfully average and seemed to be getting more so. Ever since I had started my freshmen year of high school, my life had become incredible boring and repetitive. It wasn't until this most recent December that my life changed. It was at this time when I discovered MLP: FiM. Now, I won't bore you with the long story as to how I began watching the show, but I can tell you it is pretty weird...

 

Anyway, after watching the first few episodes I almost instantly found myself having a happier disposition, a friendlier tone, and a more tolerant temper. As I continued to watch and enjoy the show, I found myself dancing to music more, caring more for others, eating healthier, and dropping bad habits that I should have done so to long before.

 

It's only been about a month and a three weeks since I first considered myself a brony, and I've already found myself being a better person. I'm less violent (although I do play TF2 quite a bit now), I find it easier to focus on my work (as long as there aren't pony videos to distract me), and I find myself in less conflicts (even if I do still enjoy a good argument with my friends).

 

Being a brony has changed my life a great deal when you consider how little time I've spent as one, I can't wait to see what will happen to me next as I continue to grow, change, and become involved more in the brony community/world around me!

[Shadowed Watcher 183]

Before MLP... I was a hateful shrew that spoke death as if it were a second language. Upon discovering the ponies, however, my entire outlook on life changed. They gave me a new lease on life, and I actually have a reason to live now! I'm so happy that my friends turned me on MLP....

[Jadefire 2,797]

I never was much of a social person, until I became a brony and started taking part more in community events.

 

Confound these ponies, they drive me to social interaction. x3

[SpectrumUK_D 45]

ponies have changed me too. Before MLP FIM came along I wasn't exactly depressed, but I didn't have the best outlook on life either. a good friend showed me a video, I watched the first few episodes and now I try to be a lot more positive and tolerant and even my parents are complimenting my change in personality, not to mention the fact that MLP has inspired me to become more creative. (before I considered myself the most un-creative person ever) and has brought me and some of my friends closer together. I have now had the courage to engage with a community properly again (I lurked a LOT before) and have found them to be even more awesome and accepting than I expected. it truly is amazing considering it's a cartoon show aimed a young girls.

[Kenny 232]

Ponies have only made me more obsessed with the internet. (Which is both good and bad.)

[SpectrumUK_D 45]

Ponies have only made me more obsessed with the internet. (Which is both good and bad.)

 

hmmm me too, but I only played video games before anyway so I haven't lost much.

[Queen Cassie 3,057]

How has my being a fan of the show changed me? In truth, a lot of the changes are really not so much basic changes in my personality, as they are the opportunities being a fan has granted me.

 

I was already on my path to becoming much better, much more secure emotionally. As I've said in other places, I do suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder and other serious depression issues. I've had to deal with a lot of trauma, from different experiences, including an attempt to join the U.S. Navy that ended extremely poorly. (For the best, I should add: I'm much happier now than I would have been in military life.) I haven't had all that many real friends either. Part of this is due to the fact that I live more or less in the middle of nowhere with no one around that I really know, and I don't get real social interaction outside of college classes, classes I have to travel for about an hour to get to. It's also partially due to the fact that I have a bad tendency of letting my emotions get the better of me and sabotaging any friendships I do make, from acting out, engaging in behaviors that some would label as attention seeking, and generally fearing the worst about every interaction with my friends that I would be...not quite paranoid or suspicious, but I wouldn't expect much in the way of good from them either, which isn't a healthy attitude. As I said, I've become much better, a great deal of which is thanks to psychological therapy I've received as well as support from some people that I sadly don't count among my friends anymore.

 

When I first started watching the show, I was a member of a private forum I haven't gone to since the first of December, a little place where I had some real friends for a while, even if they didn't live anywhere near me. That place had gone downhill since someone took over the hosting, and I was already prepared to leave it. An incident with someone else--not anything directed at me, but how everyone reacted towards that person--was enough to make me leave.

 

By being a fan of the show, however, I've had more opportunities to make friends than I've had in years. While I don't post on here all the time and tend to lurk a little bit, I do interact plenty on here and feel I've begun to make some real friendships. I'm also a member of a forum for local Colorado pony fans that has enabled me to go to many meetups--including one I'm headed to today, with my little brother no less(we almost never hang out at all)--that have been really helpful for making friends amongst them, and just hanging out, the kind of social interaction that I crave so often but rarely get.

 

It's also inspired me to be a bit more creative. While I've had plenty of missteps along those lines, as some of you whom I made the mistake of wrapping up in a project are well aware(for which I apologize again, by the way), I have been engaging my imagination and actually writing at a level I haven't done in a long time, especially in terms of nonfiction writings like my analyses. I'm not sure I should ever expect to be all that fantastic a fiction writer--I'm not sure I have the full level of patience and interest for it, at least not anything super lengthy--but I am enjoying it for the most part, which is what matters. I also plan on trying to branch out to making vector art as well when I get the chance to have a lot more time to myself than I have.

 

Interestingly, being a fan of the show has also led indirectly to my being able to handle much greater levels of stress than I have in the past, at least since my aborted military career anyway. I have twenty-one credits this semester at college, a level that I've been handling rather well despite how involved it is, something that makes me a little proud of myself, which isn't something I feel often. I'm not sure how much of the stress handling is due to being able to destress by hanging out with friends, the fact that watching the show, reading fanfiction or viewing fanart, etc is just that cheerful and enjoyable most of the time, or what, but I am fairly sure that I would be a lot more stressed out without the sort of relief being a fan of the show has brought me.

 

So if it's changing me at all, it's mostly in how it's enabled opportunities, opened doors for me that wouldn't have even been there otherwise, and made me a little less introverted and a lot less lonely.

[Jokuc 8,173]

Ponies has changed me too. I feel more.. Happy.. And friendly!

[DrOphthalmos 497]

How has my being a fan of the show changed me? In truth, a lot of the changes are really not so much basic changes in my personality, as they are the opportunities being a fan has granted me.

 

I was already on my path to becoming much better, much more secure emotionally. As I've said in other places, I do suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder and other serious depression issues. I've had to deal with a lot of trauma, from different experiences, including an attempt to join the U.S. Navy that ended extremely poorly. (For the best, I should add: I'm much happier now than I would have been in military life.) I haven't had all that many real friends either. Part of this is due to the fact that I live more or less in the middle of nowhere with no one around that I really know, and I don't get real social interaction outside of college classes, classes I have to travel for about an hour to get to. It's also partially due to the fact that I have a bad tendency of letting my emotions get the better of me and sabotaging any friendships I do make, from acting out, engaging in behaviors that some would label as attention seeking, and generally fearing the worst about every interaction with my friends that I would be...not quite paranoid or suspicious, but I wouldn't expect much in the way of good from them either, which isn't a healthy attitude. As I said, I've become much better, a great deal of which is thanks to psychological therapy I've received as well as support from some people that I sadly don't count among my friends anymore.

 

When I first started watching the show, I was a member of a private forum I haven't gone to since the first of December, a little place where I had some real friends for a while, even if they didn't live anywhere near me. That place had gone downhill since someone took over the hosting, and I was already prepared to leave it. An incident with someone else--not anything directed at me, but how everyone reacted towards that person--was enough to make me leave.

 

By being a fan of the show, however, I've had more opportunities to make friends than I've had in years. While I don't post on here all the time and tend to lurk a little bit, I do interact plenty on here and feel I've begun to make some real friendships. I'm also a member of a forum for local Colorado pony fans that has enabled me to go to many meetups--including one I'm headed to today, with my little brother no less(we almost never hang out at all)--that have been really helpful for making friends amongst them, and just hanging out, the kind of social interaction that I crave so often but rarely get.

 

It's also inspired me to be a bit more creative. While I've had plenty of missteps along those lines, as some of you whom I made the mistake of wrapping up in a project are well aware(for which I apologize again, by the way), I have been engaging my imagination and actually writing at a level I haven't done in a long time, especially in terms of nonfiction writings like my analyses. I'm not sure I should ever expect to be all that fantastic a fiction writer--I'm not sure I have the full level of patience and interest for it, at least not anything super lengthy--but I am enjoying it for the most part, which is what matters. I also plan on trying to branch out to making vector art as well when I get the chance to have a lot more time to myself than I have.

 

Interestingly, being a fan of the show has also led indirectly to my being able to handle much greater levels of stress than I have in the past, at least since my aborted military career anyway. I have twenty-one credits this semester at college, a level that I've been handling rather well despite how involved it is, something that makes me a little proud of myself, which isn't something I feel often. I'm not sure how much of the stress handling is due to being able to destress by hanging out with friends, the fact that watching the show, reading fanfiction or viewing fanart, etc is just that cheerful and enjoyable most of the time, or what, but I am fairly sure that I would be a lot more stressed out without the sort of relief being a fan of the show has brought me.

 

So if it's changing me at all, it's mostly in how it's enabled opportunities, opened doors for me that wouldn't have even been there otherwise, and made me a little less introverted and a lot less lonely.

 

Oh Kyronea, I love your walls of text! You write very well and I am not surprised that you are able to handle twenty-one credits - that is a hefty workload! Sounds like you picked the right pony to be your avatar - study like Twilight Sparkle and enjoy the magic of friendship!

[Daring Do 195]

I have a story to tell too!

 

Before I was inducted into Bronyism, as I am now, I was also a very bitter person.... The place I resided in the world had changed me, twisted my soul with tar, a consuming darkness that only turned my innocence to the worst. Where I used to live before I moved had not prepared me for the darkness I was to face in this new place, and when it did, it destroyed me. Every second that I walked upon that wretched place only made my anger worse, my sorrow deepened... By the time I had fully been stuffed with such rage, I already qualified for schizophrenia.

 

Everything I did within this place always ticked me off at some point, made me burst into anger greater than the sun's fire. Nothing consoled me, not my "friends", not my family, not virtual reality... Everything seemed pointless... All that was around me was rage, sadness, putrid trash.

 

THAT, was until I found My Little Pony. With my dreary eyes I watched each episode, one by one, absorbing the values it wished to give. By the time I had begun drawing them, I realized something. My Little Pony was the only thing in this world that could never make me angry. It was the cure that I had been waiting for after waiting four whole years in my own hell. Suddenly, I was happy for the first time in those years.