So last night I was checking my old email, rifling through the spam and such as I do on occasion. And I happened to come across a folder full of emails exchanged between me and ~lunargirl126. The interesting part about these emails?

They're all from the 5th grade.

So I read them, shared the particularly horrifying ones with Mel, and generally lol'd. Although we both agree, if we could go back in time we would punch ourselves in the face.

It wasn't too pretty.

But it got me thinking how even though I haven't really noticed it much, my personality has drastically changed pretty much every year since I was 10. For instance:

Beffy at 10: "MY NAME IS BE-THA-NY. DO NOT CALL ME CALL ME BETH OKAY? ^_^" I abused the ability to format fonts, abused emotes to death and was way too perky despite being over-emotional. I was always either bouncing off the walls hyper, or I was sobbing my eyes out because somebody said the dog in my drawing looked like it was floating. (/sob/ ITS JUST FARTHER BACK IN THE PICTURRRRRRREEEEEEE DDDDDD: /sob more/)

Beffy at 11: Okay thats pretty much the same as the above. Sadly.

Beffy at 12: "NO REALLY, I CAN TOTALLY DRAW TOO. IVE BEEN ABLE TO FOR A WHILE I JUST DIDN'T TELL ANYONE. IM NOT COPYING YOU I SWEAR" I had just discovered Piczo. Ended up getting in a spat with ~lunargirl126 that lasted almost a year, because she thought I was copying. To be honest, I probably was. At this age I molded myself to match the people around me. I had no personality of my own. This unoriginality led to me discovering the best (or worst) thing of my life: manga.

Beffy at 13: "OH. MY. GOD. LAST NIGHT I WAS TOTALLY ON THE INTERNET AND I FOUND THIS DANNA CHIBI AND IT WAS SO KAWAAAAAIIIII!!!! But the person who made it was a total baka who like, thought he was gay." Probably the phase I'm least proud of looking back. these were dark days, as I was a crazed pocky-munching, japanese-language abusing wap. I'll admit that, I had the wapanese thing going there. (BUT I NEVER SAID DESU.) Not nearly as emotional as I used to be, after having my heart broken a couple time I just kept to myself. Later in this year the wap syndrome died down, and I entered my 7 month long "HOMYGOD IM SO DEPRESSED ALL THE TIME" phase.

Beffy at 14: "So what you're saying, is that I am weird, and should not be spoken to? You sir, radiate an air of blasphemic hypocrisy." I've finally matured to the point where I know that saying stuff like "kawaii" was just too much. Early in this year, I was still in my "HOMYGOD IM SO DEPRESSED ALL THE TIME" phase but now I'm almost completely recovered, and I'm more open about it. Although I still act like I'm 9, and don't really notice when I'm doing stupid stuff in public, I actually have a certain degree of maturity. But I'm still a big dork, an insane goofball, and for some reason now people come to me with their problems. Huh.

I don't know why I felt the need to type that. But, now I'm curious, have you noticed any drastic change in your personality over the past few years?


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