Man, has it really been 2 years? are we really in year 3? You know, the older you get, the faster time moves by it seems. why it only seems like just yesterday the year 2013 had just begun and my heart was filled with new years resolutions and that sense of a fresh start, a new beginning. Now we are already well into march and before you know it December will roll around, and with it, the end of another year. I swear sometimes time moves by so fast that i'm afraid i'll close my eyes for a second and when i re-open them, i'll be 30, and the God honest truth is that when we are all 30 (or 10 years older), we'll take a moment to reflect back on a decade and tell ourselves, "wow, in the blink of an eye my 20's are already over". i can only hope that "what have i done with my life" wont follow that statement for anyone.
Alright smogon, i wont keep you guessing with an OP that starts off with the first half being just a tease and dropping clues as to what this might be about. i'll save you the guess work and just let you know now before going further in depth. This thread is about Sakura-Con. Yes, it is that time of the year again. some of you might remember the last 2 threads i made.
My favorite: Sakura-con 2012 - ADVENTURE TIME!!!
The beginning: Sakura-Con 2011 - GIRUGAMESH
and now that another year has gone by, its time for round 3, SAKURA-CON 2013: [title to be determined]. You know a lot is introduced in the span of a year, and even more is that what already exists goes up or down in popularity. I personally cannot wait to see what this year has in store. Also the creativity of people is just amazing to witness, but the big announcement is that I WILL FINALLY BE COSPLAYING FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. yes i am very excited and we will get more into detail about it a little further down.
This OP will be very different from that of last year (the original in hide tags of course). No matter how fast time may fly, the one thing that remains unchanged is that we all grow and change in many ways over the course of each year. I am a very different person from last year, and by that i mean a lot of the things that made up my nerdy side are quickly fading to the passages of time. Video games used to a defining feature of my life, my very identity. From my childhood days i have always loved video games with all of my heart, but today they are nothing more than a chore. I quit Pokemon after VGC worlds of last year. today both my xbox360 and wii are packed in their respective boxes and are locked away. in fact when you enter my room, apart from my awesome computer that i built from scratch, you will find no system in sight, no not even my handhelds. for the first time in my life i could care less about video games and do not even look forward to a single game coming out. yes that's right, for the first time ever. i mean, i am keeping an eye out for the next title in the Dragon age series, but even that, i am not really excited... just keeping an eye out for it. I think maybe deep down inside this is why i have been so taken to Sakura-con and anime conventions. I mean, i am losing so much of what made me a nerd in my eyes that this one giant representation of everything nerd and nerd culture has become something that i have unconsciously attached myself to in an effort to hold on to a side of me and a culture i am quickly growing apart from and losing interest in. Damnit, i miss my star Trek loving days. i also miss my WoW days. Even anime, i honestly believe that once Naruto ends, i will also be completely done with reading manga and following any anime. I mean, unless i finally get back into one piece and try to catch up, but the huge gap in episodes and just how much there is to catch up on is the primary reason i never got back into it in the first place. the interest just isn't there. Also Comics were the first to go awhile back. i wont lie, i don't even see myself on smogon in a years time, at least not active. Just maybe popping in every now and then. i mean, my interest in everything nerdy is what keeps me on the internet in general, and well, yeah, that's fading. I know all this can just be chucked under "growing up", but that's not the way i feel in my heart. its hard to explain. i mean, i am on my way to the age of 23, and although i realize that that also means that i still have a lot of growing up to do, i also know when i am simply growing out of something and this is not it.
Anyways, whatever the reasons why i fell in love with anime conventions so quickly, i will enjoy this love i have for them now whiles its still in my heart. after all, like i said, i feel like its the last thing that i feel like my old nerdy self and my nerd side truly coming out anymore. haha. after all, if you've ever had the pleasure of being to one of these things, you'll know just how much of a big nerd fest it is. alright lets get to the news of me finally deciding to cosplay after not doing it the first two times. i guess the 3rd time really is the charm. I'll keep this short and cut straight to the chase, whom shall Jesus have the pleasure of calling his first ever cosplay? This was a question i thought about for awhile and even asked around for help. at first i thought about shirtless characters to show off ma bod. after all, I've worked very hard to attain it, why not show it off? But in the end good senses kicked in and i decided that it would be better to cosplay a character i actually love. Someone close to my heart, someone i enjoy very much and it would be a pleasure to step into his shoes for a day or two. with that thought in mind i picked one of my favorite characters of all time. After all (man i need to stop saying that), i can always cosplay characters with no shirts later on in the future, you know, as my 2nd, 3rd, 4th.......... and my 100th cosplay ^_^. haha, God, i certainly hope this cosplay thing doesn't last that long.
My chosen Cosplay:
ROCK LEE!!!!!!
