Hi, you guys. I don't know if anyone remembers me. I disappeared from BYC around three and a half years ago, and I haven't even gone on here since, until today. You have no idea how much I've missed you all. I saw the web address for BYC in my sidebar a few days ago and I just knew I had to come back. I figured I owed you guys an explanation for what happened to me. So here's what happened:
- The morning after I left, my parents told me that i had to give up my chickens. I took them to a farm called Museum Village two days later. As far as I know, they still live there. Since they're turning four years old next month, they may have died already. I don't know, really, what happened to them. The last time I saw them was about two weeks after I left.
-About ten months after I left, my family moved. We live in the city now. I really didn't want to leave, but I feel like I have a better life now, even if I had to leave my chickens behind. Most of the things I had for them- my incubator, my makeshift coop, that "Raising for Chickens for Dummies" book- are either still at the house, or we threw them out.
-I started a new school a year after I left. I'm about to graduate from that school now.
-I missed you all really bad during my first few months after leaving, so I joined a couple of other forums. I left all of them. I really wanted to get back what I had with you all, but I was too scared to come back.
-After a while, I sorta forced myself to let go of the chickens, but I took up a new obsession almost immediately- natural disasters and storms. Most of it was probably triggered by the hurricane that hit here about two years ago. I've realized that I'm just naturally a very obsessive person. Since I'm going to this new school, I want to start over and finally confront my past, so I'm going over each of my obsessions and confronting them. And this is my way of confronting the chickens- by going back to you all. I used to be so afraid, but now I'm not.
You all have no idea how much this means to me. My hands can barely type this post because I'm shaking so much. I saw that "Congrats on 5 Years on BYC" message in my inbox and just burst into tears. This forum was once my entire life, and now I'm back. I've been through so much- four years, countless friends lost and gained, a few home improvement projects, a few bullies, a failed makeover, an induction into Arista, ten school dances, three hurricanes, two summer camps, three plays, tons of tears and even more smiles- and yet I find myself here.
I love and miss you all.
-FluffyColor
- The morning after I left, my parents told me that i had to give up my chickens. I took them to a farm called Museum Village two days later. As far as I know, they still live there. Since they're turning four years old next month, they may have died already. I don't know, really, what happened to them. The last time I saw them was about two weeks after I left.
-About ten months after I left, my family moved. We live in the city now. I really didn't want to leave, but I feel like I have a better life now, even if I had to leave my chickens behind. Most of the things I had for them- my incubator, my makeshift coop, that "Raising for Chickens for Dummies" book- are either still at the house, or we threw them out.
-I started a new school a year after I left. I'm about to graduate from that school now.
-I missed you all really bad during my first few months after leaving, so I joined a couple of other forums. I left all of them. I really wanted to get back what I had with you all, but I was too scared to come back.
-After a while, I sorta forced myself to let go of the chickens, but I took up a new obsession almost immediately- natural disasters and storms. Most of it was probably triggered by the hurricane that hit here about two years ago. I've realized that I'm just naturally a very obsessive person. Since I'm going to this new school, I want to start over and finally confront my past, so I'm going over each of my obsessions and confronting them. And this is my way of confronting the chickens- by going back to you all. I used to be so afraid, but now I'm not.
You all have no idea how much this means to me. My hands can barely type this post because I'm shaking so much. I saw that "Congrats on 5 Years on BYC" message in my inbox and just burst into tears. This forum was once my entire life, and now I'm back. I've been through so much- four years, countless friends lost and gained, a few home improvement projects, a few bullies, a failed makeover, an induction into Arista, ten school dances, three hurricanes, two summer camps, three plays, tons of tears and even more smiles- and yet I find myself here.
I love and miss you all.
-FluffyColor
time to celebrate
