EDIT: OKAY, this is REALLY BIG. I let myself get lost and I'm too lazy to edit things out. Sorry.
Hello everyone. After making some posts here I decided to introduce myself to this awesome community. I grew up to be a very open person so I'll talk a bit about my past and personal life, and it can be happy, and it can be sad. It can basically be whatever you make it to be so here we go.
Uhh where to start? I'm 18, I'm from Portugal, grew up in a town close to the border to Spain (they are indeed 2 different countries). Boring town really. I was always an uplifting, care-less person, always managed to see the bright side on everything, and always had to be moving around. Actually, when I was a kid, I used to pick up any key or any other small toy that could fit in my hand, and I'd jump around in my room imagining some pretty cool story in my head, usually on planes, or boats, or some other way of travelling somewhere. The key/toy was a burst to my imagination, and I would live the story physically, moving around as the characters in my mind. I still do that to this day, but shhh, it's a secret. It lets me know my imagination is still alive.
So I always wanted to move, to explore, to go somewhere else. I wrote my first book at the age of 8! Editors jumped all over me, but the book was soooo bad I get chills when I look back at it now, and it makes me laugh. I wrote around 100 pages then replied to the e-mails saying "Hey guys I'm done writing for a while tell me what you think". No replies. Figures :f_tongue:. Wrote another one (this time made it to the end) at 15, also not published. I always make awesome short stories and summaries, everyone stays amazed, but I'm not very good at 50+ pages.
I'm a very vivid bike rider. Not so much now since I'm on a weight gain program, but I love to do 50+ miles in a day. Once I was going to the border and ended up 40km into Spain, I had to call my parents to tell them I wasn't coming back through that road at night so I was staying. 1st night I was 100% free from my parents. Too bad I was so tired I found a low-priced Motel and called it a day. But yea, bikes. Bikes are awesome.
On to darker things now, cause 'life ain't all sunshine and rainbows'.
People say you don't remember your childhood. That's a lie. I remember my grandmother pretty well, how she visited me in school, how she got between my parents and me when they were mad. I remember when she told me everyone lasts forever. I remember when my parents told me I was spending a weekend at a cousin's house. Then, on Monday, my father drove me into a quiet place in town. He talked about how Jesus had visited us that weekend and I understood my grandmother had died. Supernatural things followed. Strange enough for me to get checked for early signs of schizophrenia. But they were real. Yea gosh were they real. I was still a child tho, that might explain some things. And ironically enough, these events contributed for me to become the agnostic I am today, and that's about all I'm saying about them.
The rest is pretty standard, unfortunately. Was awesomely skinny in High School, got bullied into depression, got misdiagnosed and mistreated which actually made the things WAY worse because now we have a 15 year old heavily depressed kid who thinks he can't be treated. Add that to a family who only cares about school grades and is also chronically depressed or with anger issues, you get a possibly lethal mix. I survived tho and now I appreciate all that happened to me because it made me so much stronger than I ever thought to be humanly possible.
My life story in a nutshell. Right now I'm changing my body in so many ways. Weight lifting and heavy dieting doing their stuff. Uhh, oh romantically; never had a girlfriend, but I had my chances. However I always hated the type of girl that goes out drinking every single night, and I need to give my life some direction before getting into a relationship. There's no point on meeting someone you hope to share your goals with, when you have no clue what those goals are.
Oh I already wrote a lot. Is anyone still with me at this point?
Anyways thank you all for the attention and good luck in the tables :f_thumbsup::)
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Thanks for your answer and I'm glad you found my story interesting!