Sonic The Hedgehog is my spirit animal…
Lol..I like to joke around that he is my spirit animal. Sonic always made me laugh when I was younger. He always kept me in happy spirits despite the world wanted me to feel blue.
When I first met Sonic The Hedgehog, I was 11 years old and avoiding a school day. What a bad girl I was huh? I played hooky and feel in love with a fictional video game character.
I wanted to be just like him. Part of me knew he wasn’t real. But he was real to me. He was my best friend at the time, he made me laugh, he just kept me happy, and to me that’s all I really cared about. I wanted to be happy again and not crying and ashamed for surviving a brain tumor.
On the weekends, I never got invited to a party nor was I invited to go to the movies with friends. I had no friends. I was always alone and stayed home alone. All I had were my video games from the SEGA Genesis and Sonic The Hedgehog.
I was always a big fan of the TV shows that came on when I was a kid. Even though I enjoyed the Sonic sat a.m. series, it’s the Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog series I loved more. Maybe it was because the series was random, maybe it was because sonic always made me laugh, or maybe because sonic was always happy and winking at the camera I felt like Sonic could actually see me and was happy to see me.
Yeah, I know that’s what it was. Sonic winking at the camera, smiling made me feel like he was happy to see me again. I love Sonic The Hedgehog.
So what is wrong with loving a fictional character that makes you happy? Why does the world want to shame me for loving him? Why do others want to rip him from my arms just because they don’t like me?
I do not understand why people can be so cruel.
Everybody has something they love, rather it be a TV show, video games, or a cartoon, Or maybe even a book series. It makes you happy and that’s all that should matter. The fact that others want to rip it from you, shows you who they really are. Don’t let people rip what you love from your arms & your heart. Please be happy with who or what makes you happy.
Picture by @domestichedgeh2 on Twitter.

