Myspace did. En serio. Around the same time in my life, there were two major events where myspace played a major role in the life-changing.
1. It's how my first boyfriend and I got together. This is a big deal for obvious reasons. Mostly that the first time you fall in love is a rite of passage, it begins the training process for your current and future relationships, and it shows what love is and how to do it. This can either be a very good or very bad experience, but either way it more or less sets the tone for future relationships; a tone that is a pattern, and a pattern that is difficult to break.
2. It played the role of introducing me into animal rights issues. I don't remember who posted this or how I found it, but I saw a post about animal testing that included pictures. I spent the following 5 hours learning everything I could about animal rights issues, watched the horrible PETA factory farm videos, and decided that from then on I would stop eating animals and no longer buy products that test on animals. That was something like 8 years ago and I've been living like that ever since. It took about 7 years until I worked up the self control to become vegan after trying multiple times in the past. Living in Honduras, I'm a lot more lax about the vegan thing, but these issues have become a part of my psyche. This one night, one post I saw on a social media sight when I was 16 completely changed my life. I have recently decided that, because of this complete alteration of my mindset, I'm going to live my life as an advocate and activist for animal rights. I have a tentative plan at the moment, which heavily involves animal sanctuaries and graduate school. Because, if one of your life goals is to open an animal sanctuary, you have you start somewhere.
So, thank you myspace, for creating an open space where people can send each other surveys about what we like best about each other and starting relationships. And thank you, myspace, for creating a space where we can post about what we are passionate about so for to educate others.
Inspiration can come from the least likely of places. Even a website that has since become a joke.
This is how I will live my life.
Thank you myspace.
