Eloy, Evony and the old me

How my best friend changed me.

The story of how I changed who I am has to do with the person who has been my best friend and is now like a brother to me.  My story is of how he without knowing he changed who I am. During my eighth grade year the school that I was going to had quite a few problems with it so, I transferred to Our Lady of Fatima. Fatima had also been the place where I went for 2nd through 4th grades.  When I first got to Fatima, I saw people I had not seen for years and I saw new faces too. It was not until I was introduced to the class and they I that I met Eloy and at first I did not hang around him, instead, I hung out for the first few days/weeks with people I had known from when I went there. Actually, I annoyed him more before we became friends ha-ha but within my first month he and I were friends and we played Frisbee with my other friend Chris usually but that is how I gotten to know him.  

            Eloy changed me in many ways. He changed my taste in music, he taught me how to well talk to girls that I “like”, and he taught me how to have true fun and take risks.

When I first transferred my taste in music was questionable by the standard of my age group. Elvis and other singers and bands from around that time period aren’t exactly “cool” and I hadn’t adapted. I kind of wanted a change so I became open to new things. That is when Eloy introduced me to bands like Aerosmith, Queen, ACDC and new genres like dubstep and other forms of EDM. Now it is a main section in my music playlists and I discovered new things from it. Therefore, that one façade of me changed.

During the years, I was in middle school like everyone I assume there had at one point one or two crushes. Well I did too. I just never talked to them and I liked that approach. Eloy he taught me how to talk to them. Before when I did try to talk to one I would tremble, look at the floor, talk quietly, laugh awkwardly then leave… and that was my conversation. Afterwards I would sit down and just breathe. Eloy pushed me out of this more like shoved but anyway he found out whom I liked and he encouraged me to talk to her like a somewhat normal human. Long story short I asked her out after we talked for a while and then I was dumped and he was there for me. Of course, being the friendly jerk he is he gave me a punch in the arm and said congrats on the first time that happened to me all in the course of one day. So one more aspect of the old I changed.

One of the main ways I got to know what he was like was through the magical bond of online gaming. This is where I learned to take risks. When is say risks I mean sitting with him in English class playing our game Evony and getting in trouble for it. This was me having pure fun which was something that I had not experienced with someone in my own class before.  He taught me through that to have fun while taking a risk and to actually take a risk.

Eloy changed me he changed me into a person that is me. This is who I am now. He gave me encouragement; happiness, confidence, and he showed me that I could change. He also did this without realizing what he was doing for me. Thank you is what I have to say to him now. Thank you for being there for me bro.