How Are You Different From When You First Joined CAA?

[Shao Feng-Li]

I've been here for nearly a decade now and that mostly makes me feel old and I've come to realize that I don't actually like most anime/manga.

[Lynna]

I'm more open-minded and I don't abuse so many exclamation marks and All Caps.

[rocklobster]

I have to agree with Panda here. It really fills like a community here. I never had that before with a message board. It's the reason I keep so many people here in my prayers.

[Michael Lance]

Also, I do believe my comebacks have improved since I started posting in the Goof-Off section.

[Wolfsong]

^I have to argee with Rocky. This is honestly the first place I ever felt welcomed, and ever felt that I could make some honest friends here. I love this place with all my heart.

[Nate]

I want to love this place with all my heart but my left ventricle is just so bitter.

[Psycho Molos]

I don't want CAA to be like a family because if it is then I'm the creepy uncle and I don't want to be the creepy uncle.

you ARE the creepy uncle...

not only that, you ARE the Weakest Link, goodbye.

[Yamamaya]

Wow, I've definitely changed a lot since I first joined this sight back in 09. For one I started college, got my second job, then my third job which I am currently at.

I switched my major once, and started dating my girlfriend. I've gone through a variety of theological changes and some of my beliefs haven't changed at all. Some of my views, especially political, have only gotten stronger with the passage of time.

I definitely have more confidence in myself and I don't feel the need to show off to express myself. Nor do I feel a desire to emphasize my interests to distinguish myself.

Sometimes, I look at posts from younger people and I chuckle a bit. But I realize how wrong that is because I used to be like them. It's not fair to them.

I also reconnected with one of my friends who is now my best friend and I found a whole lot of new friends.

[Yuki-Anne]

When I first joined I pretty much just posted awful art and hoped people would like it. Eventually I stopped coming at all, but when I came to Japan as a missionary, I was starved for contact with other English-speaking Christians, so I came back. CAA helped me through that terribly lonely time of my life.

Now I've got family and friends here in Japan and I'm not so lonely anymore, but I do love this community.

[Tigerchu]

I stopped moving as much. Which means ..... I stopped moving as much^^U

[Peanut]

I laugh more when I'm on this site then when I first joined.

[Nate]

I laugh more when I'm on this site then when I first joined.

I wish I could say that but I dunno Jon Clement and Tundrawolf gave me some pretty heavy laughing fits back in the day.

[sarahjoy78]

I joined... When DID I join? Last November? December? I love CAA because I have made a lot of new friends that I have enjoyed spending time with, talking to, roleplaying and playing fun games and stuff with them. It's nice to have a site where there are christians and nothing improper on here. I have come closer to God through the daily devotions and I have a WAY longer list of prayer requests from my friends now! Everyone here welcomed me with open arms and it's ALL because of Ally-Ann who told me about this site! Thanks Ally! I owe you one! Long story short, I'm glad I joined!

[Peanut]

I wish I could say that but I dunno Jon Clement and Tundrawolf gave me some pretty heavy laughing fits back in the day.

No one will ever beat toonman.

[Davidizer13]

No one will ever beat toonman.

Toonman is a goldarned national treasure.

[KhakiBlueSocks]

[font="Trebuchet MS"][SIZE="4"][color="RoyalBlue"]I joined on March 13, 2005. When I look back at myself then as compared to now, I can't be nothing but thankful to God that He matured me from what I was then into the person I am now. Not saying that I'm perfect now by any means, but I like to think that I'm a great deal better now than I was back then. Back around the time I joined, I was dealing with a lot both outwardly and inwardly. My sister had passed the year before, my nephew was living with us at the time, and I was still confused about myself on so many levels. I became extremely self-centered, short-tempered with regards to my nephew, and I was, in hindsight, really hurting after losing my sister. At the time, I was keeping a Live Journal, and when I read just how much hatred I had...it was like reading someone ELSE'S journal and not mine own. [I have since deleted it: I wouldn't want anyone else reading about those low parts in my life] Thankfully, with time and prayer, I started to mature and have since left that part of my past in the past.

With regards to how I've changed here on the forums, again, I feel I've matured a great deal. Back when I first joined, I was so eager to try and fit in. I was trying to be noticed and be involved and to that end, some of my old posts are a little...shall we say...crazy? However, as I matured online, I grew to realize that I didn't need to try and fit in--I just had to be myself!

Granted, I'm not around CAA nowhere near as much as I was back in the day; what with work and some other projects [SHAMELESS PLUG: Check out my blog "The Cajun Samurai" by clicking the link in my signature! You won't be sorry!], but I still like to think of CAA as being a place that I just have to visit every once in a while--even if I never post anything. It just feels right. [/color][/SIZE][/font]

[agasfas]

I joined back in 2004 when I was 19 years old. Back then I was in my second year of college and worked as a cashier at a grocery store. Years later (now) I am happily married with a baby on the way. I currently work as a special education teacher and I am attending graduate school to receive a masters in accounting.

Also, I used to be able to sit down and watch a whole anime series in a week. Today I still enjoy watching anime, however I do not spend nearly the fraction of time watching anime then what I used to. Maybe an episode every week... If I am lucky. One thing has remained the same: my passion for the Lord.