A Spark, a Flame then it just went out.

   Almost all of my life there has been one thing that I've been interested in and actually good at. (unlike cooking) And that would be Drawing!!! A lot of my drawings were fan or friend requested (I used to have a youtube channel for it)

This is "Megaman!!"

First it started out small, just a few friends from school asking me to draw a picture but then I decided to take to the skies! Er well Take to the net!! There were a few other users who  knew a thing or two about the art game around youtube and that helped me to get my foot in the door.

For many people it's all about subscribers. Now depending on what your plans are then that may be very important. For me personally I wasn't sure what I was looking for. It was kind of nice though that people liked my drawings, even if most of them weren't my own original work.

    So a little bit down the road, I gained a few more subscribers and and things started to take off. Certain users ( the most popular ones) Would sometimes hold drawing competitions. You upload a video of one of your drawings and tag it to the user holding the competition. Now for as much as people liked my drawings and sometimes told me how good I was, there was some stiff competition. And it was at the end of a few of those competitions that I was truly humbled.

   Sometimes you're not as good as you might think. Now I wasn't arrogant with my drawings by any means, I mostly got As in art, but up against those other artists was something else. But at the same time, it simply made me want to try harder. To just get better, test my skills and push them to the limit. And that's what I did. My brother and I both began to practice like never before. And with time we did improve. 

   The time came one month that I entered Two drawing competitions. Dun, dun, DUN!!! And to my surprise, all that practice paid off. I won! I got first place in one competition and I believe second in the other. Around that time (since most of the drawing requests that I received were from mangas) I considered becoming a manga artist. Another user actually nominated me for a competition, and the winner would have their short story be helped in becoming a manga.

   In recent years that passion has died down. It's been awhile since I've drawn. I started working on many characters and even a story for my potential manga, well two actually. I still have most of my original characters but I'm just not feeling it anymore. It's frustrating to be honest. But sometimes other things, new people are introduced into your life and things just change. I continue to thank God for the talent that He's given me, even if it's not my calling to do anything with it.

The moral here is:
Things take time. Sometimes early on things seem certain, and later on they don't. Some things stick and turn out to be your calling.
But while making room and time for new friends, and hobbies are great. Never forget the things of old, those good things which impact the wonderful person you are today.