I Just Want To Say Thank You!

*the message is at the bottom*

Hmm?
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Hello everyone, so before I start,
I would like to thank you all for
another phenomenal year.
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You see, I once started my started my life here on NUF back in 2016, a time where, quite frankly, I was a bit of a jerk.

I was also still in my "long hair, Sword Art Online is a good anime, don't talk shit about my waifu Suguha"
phase; it was really only when I started talking to people on NUF that I began to learn so many things.

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　　　⊂ーＪ..

I've had my ups and downs in life, some of which
I'll have to hide in a spoiler due to their sensitivity,
along with a way that you all can gift me something.

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Throughout these past five years, I've grown out of
my dark and edgy phase of reality, and look back on
it as cringe worthy.



Oh my god like I told a bunch of
my classmates back during Elementary School to
"call me killer" during one of the Flag Football games.

It was so embarrassing, because they did! And I was

winning! Oh my god I can never forget this!

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　/つ　〇━⊂二二フ *my memories*
　⊂~Ｊ⌒ ⊂(#)༎ຶД༎ຶ)つ *me*

But there were some good things, I've made a bunch of amazing friends here, and although I've never met everyone here, it's still better than having just five people that you somewhat know.

I've gained and lost many thing, for instance, I had two cats two years ago, now, I have three. The things is, only one of them are part of the original duo.

My orange cat was lovely and super nice, but she had a problem my mother could not stand; her dumps were the size of a man who just ate Chipotle, but the smell was worse.

She didn't put her down, no rather on a morning without telling me, she just left her at the homeless community in our town. By this point, I already knew it was going to happen, and I was fairly prepared both mentally and emotionally.

Both kids had given birth, with the orange one having five, to which I slowly gave away so as to not upset her. These cats were my emotional support teddy bears, and now I've slowly just reduced them to living outside indefinitely now, I feed them every morning and try to destroy any ants I see close.
　　/)/) 　∧,,∧
.／·　 ﾐ(·ω·*)
(＿ノ＼　ﾐ⊂　)
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　　　 .ＵJ~ＵJ

But then, my school life became more important, and I started having anxiety so much that I went to a therapist for a couple of times, but all in all I just had to get past the anxiety and depression.

I once beat 100% a game, did everything possible, only to lead myself towards the thoughts of, "Is this all my life amounts to? Is this really all I could've achieved and be proud of, what a fool I am."

Thankfully I'm back at it again with games, because once I got through the depression, it wasn't the time I spent on games that got me, it was the anxiety of life that got to me those last summer months. I realized that I needed human interaction to get me going, and so for once I began hating summer and started looking forward to starting school again.

I was right, after a few weeks I got back to normal again, which kind of proved that I needed to spend more time with people, especially with my family.

Now onto random stuff, listen I know this is a controversial statement, but well...I like the Little Caesar's Deep Deep Dish and also American Chinese Food is bomb!

It's true, I swear on my life! (இдஇ; )

Back to life, alright, so a few days ago, my dad got robbed while in the shower. Okay, hold on, a better way to describe it would be that he got robbed of his phone and bags back at his gym! Either way, my older brother who's had it tough these past ten years, thought our dad died. It's because our father usually answers our calls and texts, but this one time someone else answered the phone, a girl we never heard of.

I wasn't panicking, because I knew that my father was never the type of man to do something shady and just get beaten up in an alley or something, the place where the girl supposedly found it. He's a black belt for crying out loud, and my brother is still like, "What if...what if something happened to him."

"He'll be fine Ivan, even if something did happen, what could we do? Call the cops? We don't even know where he is at the moment, and it's too early to call the police." I say this but my family are basically another one of the Hispanic minorities who "won't even trust a doctor, let alone a cop".

So basically that option is out of the list, and our only option is to either just walk 27- 40 Miles on foot, or wait and see. The problem is that, well, my brother isn't quite the best state he can be in, the dude dropped out of Highschool, went into a gang, had two kids, broke up with the lady, and shut himself away for months.

After Christmas, he got way better and moved on from that life, but this also means he wants to avoid the matter of his two sons. Either way, the guy goes crazy, and eventually it escalated to him wearing a fucking tinfoil hat. What the hell, hearing this my mom rushed back home and literally spent the entire night; a full four of five hours talking to him and giving him back his reasoning.

Finally, after a few days, I think he's okay. My sister the next day brought her own kids along to cheer him up, and it very much worked. The guy was super happy and enjoying himself, still it worries me how in a couple of hours, he went crazy and started wearing a tinfoil hat. ("O_O) Like dude see a Doctor.

My mom, she's really sweet, but her arguments can get pretty emotional and intense, like she'll make you cry not through just vocal-jabs, but bittersweet hugs. Ever since the pandemic, my mother would always tell my older brother that she needs him to work for her; there isn't a ton of workers anymore and she needs them. Without them there are no jobs, but I think it's gotten better now; if all those maskless people at Malls are anything to say about how loose the rules have gotten.

Spoiler: Little More Personal

So, my parent's divorced before I finished Middle School, I didn't even really know until three months went by, and that probably goes to show how repetitive both my days were and how much I cared about my dad at the time. My father would always come home late, too late at night for me to still be awake; and he'd always be drunk.

Apparently it all sparked when my father walked out of the car during a heated argument with my mom on their way from shopping. I. WAS. THERE.

The problem was this, we're Hispanic, and I don't speak a single lick of Spanish! Absurd, yeah. My mom from then on began taking care of us, it wasn't until Halloween that I was like, "Okay, what's really going on?"

Although I didn't really know at the time, in terms of other men and how they would describe it; my dad lost almost everything. My mom took the house, and since our parents worked together, without the support of her my dad just continued having a miserable life. I love him now, and I still love my mom, because none of them are to blame, rather it's the people around them who didn't help that were the problem; as in me and my siblings.

Yes it also includes their friends but like...I don't know dammit. After all these years, I'm just glad my father hasn't lost pashion, because ever since my father has abstained himself and become a man of pure faith. Sadly he's contracted diabetes, and now has to take insulin every day.

Let's move onto my siblings again, I mentioned my sister, and that she had two kids. The latter was never planned and in fact she had a falling out with the guy. You'd think she'd hate the kid, but you would be wrong. To my sister, it's not the child's fault, and because he's no longer bothering her, this child - her child - is someone that she will protect with all her support.

As for my younger sister, pssh, she's a fatty who can make her own cake. Okay, actually she's a very nice and sweet sister, but a good way to describe her would be "a VSCO girl". Oof, like imagine the classic vsco girl and make them hispanic. To quote my cousin's sister, "DAMN, why is she so thick?" All of this sums up my younger sister.

If you all would like to gift me something, I'd really appreciate it if you could PM me a gift card for Playstation. Ten dollars is all I ask for, since I don't wish to burden anyone during these times. You can purchase these cards at a local store or through online retailers that just give you a code.

(ﾉ≧ヮ≦)ﾉ Either way, I'd just like to thank all of you for supporting both me and everyone on NUF, and for that, I wish you all a good day and a happy new year!!!
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Spoiler: Tag List

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