In my post about 2024 I said “ I realized moving on from the past means more then just the last 10 years it means old media as well”

For years, I tried to force myself into a label, and a version of me that was deeply at ends with the changing environment around me, and trying to force myself to stay stagnant and force myself to be someone for people I never grew, and instead got caught up in how people perceived me to the point where I wasn’t me anymore because I wasn’t allowing myself to grow and find out who I could be outside of being how people knew me

I was known as a bookworm , and Otaku, A very religious person, Very fearful, and combatant to change, On the side, I’m not proud of I was known as an online harasser., stalker, troll, “ life ruiner”, a fake friend, a jerk and so on

whether they positive or negative the label boxed Me in I wanna say it was a Bruce Lee quote where he said “ don’t say, mean words about yourself even as a joke your body doesn’t know the difference” that’s true The moment I went through 2024 and allowed myself to grow outside of the pressures of these labels, I legitimately grew as a person and gained new labels to define who I am now as an adult not how my parents knew me not how people online knew me, but how the new people in my life know me, and how I am now getting to know myself

When I say, I’m moving on from old media, I’m saying I’m not becoming stagnant. In my past. I can look at Powerpuff Girls. , Danny Phantom, specific Pokémon, with fondness, appreciation, Enjoy and how far as a viewer, and the media itself has changed since then

It’s not something that has to relate back to bad things. I can look at my past and smile at all of it because I know that’s not me right now I’m allowed to grow past what was known about me

It’s OK for me to look at these old shows and not interact further than a smile and saying “ Oh yeah, I remember that.” And keep going forward and using my knowledge of these old things to help my new life