Happy 2nd Birthday Omniverse!

[Gildarts]

Sometimes, people find things when they aren't looking for them. Like that book you lost in the second grade that somehow ended up stashed in the folds of your closet, that tennis ball you threw over the roof and you find it a week later when you are cleaning out the gutters as its unmistakable neon gleam shines through the muck of brown leaves. Or maybe you weren't expecting to find that sock that was missing its match stuck to the drier wall with only static to blame for your single set of cold toes. Life is like that and we find valuable things, or even our life's passions even when we don't search for them.

But for some people, it finds them.

Writing found me at a very young age, where destiny and life's crossroads seemed like it was more than a thousand miles away. So, it still surprises me to find that I have maintained a passion for creating all these years later, and, lately, I've been standing at the crossroads, if not on the very fine edge of the cliff.

This is the usually part where I would tell you I plunged into the unknown, or something cliché but this isn't the story of me, this is a story about how I found the Omniverse.

Many years ago, the Internet didn't exist -gasp- and Google was just a funny sounding word. Now, I don't know when Google's birthday is, but I do know that eight months ago, I decided it might be fun to feed my curiosity. So I googled RP, and a bunch of other stuff. Eventually those hyperlinks lead me to this site. Gray background and littered with pictures of Samus and that character I recognized as Truth from FMAB.

In bold words I was directed to read the rules. Well. There were more than I would have liked to read. But I clicked the first couple of pages and decided that while they were carefully sorted and seemed complex, they were worth reading if I was going to "do this thing." Eventually writing commenced, I hunted down a super awesome Mage, had some adventures and killed a few people, the norm, as I later found.

But, along the way, I made some remarkable friends <3

As someone who had an okay childhood, with good memories, and good friends, as I got older I had to move more often. So while I kept my friends, we never really stayed super in touch.

Writing became my number one for a while, after family and school; and while life seems so long, when measured in days, we realize how short it really is when we find that the things worth cherishing are not always what we fill our time with. Life, while it is filled with so much, like love, care, friendship and growth; is also is full of simple accomplishments like the bonds we make, the memories we create, and the stories we have that are worth telling and sharing.

I like to think that a lot of the above is done here, where people can be free to tell their own stories, make friends, talk to people, share their goals with like-minded people who support them when no one else they know in their life will at the time, and here, people are able to just have a good time.

The Omniverse is a special place, created by a deity that catches your eye, steals you away, and reminds you that the stories you alone create are interesting, breath-taking, and always worth telling.

I was looking for a place to write when I googled "RP" but I never imagined I would find such an incredibly wonderful and completely life-changing place as this.