Having somehow managed to lose 12.8 lbs between yesterday and six weeks prior, I recall how I had looked from prior to the latter half of my 8th Grade years in life. I was very chubby back then as a kid due to my diet issues, which I still pretty much have today since I'm a picky eater. However, during 8th Grade, I had used my own imagination to find excuses to get onto my bicycle while I still had it to ride outside around my neighborhood and the nearby apartment complex, streets, and my old middle school area before it became a construction site as it is now with the old building demolished.
Not only that, but even gaming wise I feel like I've changed. Back in the day, I would play just about any type of game I could get my hands on save for JRPGs. Nowadays, I feel like JRPGs are the only games I can truly play anymore. I'm growing out of it mind you, but much of this has to do with the fact my discs for my older games are beginning to no longer work, my N64 cartridges are beginning to weaken in capabilities and some of the games getting lost, and the various N64 controllers getting damaged further and further every time they're momentarily brought out of retirement.
That said, ever since High School, I somewhat grew into a rather depressed and often cynical person on the inside of my mind, but only very rarely showcasing this on the outside. When High School first began, I was still the failure I was in Middle School who couldn't get homework done on time, and I was first put into classes that posed too many problems for me. Plus my first English teacher at that school pulled stuff out of his *** when he said I apparently had a reading assignment over the prior summer... when I had no such thing in reality.
As a result of the above, my next classes in High School were changed to far easier classes and that's when I finally began to slowly, and slowly mature into a responsible person. If I had homework I needed to get done, that would be my priority before the day would end and nothing else would get in my way until it was done. As a result, for the remainder of High School, I had my time at home free of school work because I succeeded in doing all of my homework before having to go home and my work gets turned in with solid grades. High School was both the worst experience for me but also the best time for me since I had did better academically here than any other school I had been to.
As a result, and with what events in life would latter happen after High School, I had grown up into a more responsible, mature individual who I could barely recognize as the same kid I was prior to High School. Was this change for the better? Absolutely. Do I sometimes miss my old life? Yes. Back then, I had friends in school with both teachers and students alike; when High School came around, I had basically isolated myself from everyone just to focus on school work. I had even just barely managed to score a girlfriend for about two years towards the end of High School, but after those two years she broke up with me for rather pathetic reasoning and I was left rather broken as a person because I had soon realized how much I was exploited by the one girl I had been the most closest to in real life or anywhere else.
That said, I do feel like I've been a person has changed in my life as well. Sometimes change just sort of happens no matter who you are, for the better or for the worse.
