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IT ALL STARTED WHEN…
I was 2. You could find me drawing and playing video games. As I got older, I would draw anything that I saw and was pretty good at it. I didn't have a lot of friends in school, was considered that one weird kid, drawing in the back of the classroom. For some reason I was always done with my class work before anyone else, then I would start doodling.

My third grade art teacher took notice in my ability to always have something to draw. She took me under her wing, teaching me new techniques. From what she told me, I won a few rewards in competitions she entered me in. Mind you, I never saw them but it motivated me to draw even more. I also realized, the more I got into drawing, anime, cartoons the more people moved away from me. At that point I found myself alone…..A LOT. I stopped caring after awhile. I was like a stigma was attached to anything involving art.

In seventh grade, I starting learning about the fundamentals of writing stories. Such as: personification, metaphors, similes, etc. Being a artist, this came to be my favorite class. This one class made me want to start writing stories, not just drawing. For YEARS, I couldn't get one story right.(lol) They were all really bad. Fast forward to being an adult. When I finally found out what I wanted to do with life, I lost 3 of the closest people in my life.

My step dad Keith, my grandmother Mary, and my second mother Kim. I was depressed for years. I found myself not able to do anything. The people I would go to for comfort and advice were gone. It's funny, if you knew me the next thing I'm about to say would be weird. I'm getting choked up writing this because, its something I didn't talk about with ANYONE. Them being gone, made me feel like I had nothing left. Depression can be a real life stopper, if you let it.

But, I had a family to take care of. I had to put on a brave face, get up and do something. After watching my kids argue one day, I had the idea for what its now called, "Super Pixel Beaters." Its original name was, "Ninjas vs Ballerinas" and it rhymed…. yeah I know. In the midst of me finally getting motivated to get my work out into the world, my girlfriend/ pretty much wife, is diagnosed with Shojren's disease. She suffers from extreme fatigue and is in pain 24/7. We also have a small child and she has a hard time keeping up with her.

Due to that, I find myself in the house most of the time. Instead of getting depressed again, I saw this as a opportunity to do what I wanted to do , but didn't have the courage to do. This story is my way of reaching out to those people that rejected me many years ago and to those people I lost along the way, just to say….thank you. I heard a saying recently, "The reason you weren't part of the world is because you were destined to make your own." (lol) Something like that.



P.S. If I learned anything from this whole thing is, for real…. you just have to shut up and do it.