I feel amazingly old and you should too

[Darth SS]

So, I'm at work, it's my last day, and there's not a lot to do. I sign onto NPF, twiddle around, laugh at the outrageous things that are thrown about and then click on my User CP. Scrolling down, I come across events for which I was rep'd. The earliest one comes from December 2003. "Wow," ponders my alluring baritone voice within my mind, "That was a long time ago. I was practically..."

It hits me. I was 13 when that happened. That was back when I played SOCOM and decided to make the Kill-Team RP. Long-time veterans will remember that I tried, unsuccessfully, to run a special-ops style RP a couple times. The running joke was that in the RP forum there were four constants. 1) Raiden would be running a Soldiers of Light every week, 2) Cyber Wars just wouldn't end dammit, 3) SS would be trying to run Kill Team and 4) Raiden's character would hit on CJ's character. So I start thinking about how I got onto this forum and...

I joined after TopWebComics melted down. Honestly, I can't even remember how I learned about the switch. At that time, I had probably been on TopWeb for about a year, so I signed up in either 2001 or 2002. To put that in context, I was either 11 or 12. I am now 20 years old, about to turn 21. When I joined I think I was in the seventh grade, I am now entering my fourth year of university. When I joined I had just got a PS2 and thought it was the greatest thing to ever grace the face of the earth, and my biggest concern was the fact that I was having funny feelings for a girl and that I had a couple of hairs on my upper lip. I now have a job, and drive to classes, and live with roommates and all that.

I have spent almost half my life as a member of this forum.

I feel old.

You should to. Y'all have basically been random bystanders watching me "grow up"

EDIT: MOTHERFUCKIN' TYPO IN THE TITLE AAAAARGH