Fortunate enough to be laughed at

I was fortunate enough to be laughed at by some of the kids, back in highschool, around 2002.

It meant I learned to do my thing (back then it was making comics, videogames, animations, and card games) and putting some of them on my website for free, and others in my backpack to sell on the schoolyard.

Some laughed, said they were lame, thought it was silly, and questioned why they’d buy things from me when they could go and buy “real” ones from the store.

Others thought it was cool. They bought my games on floppy disk. They bought my card games and the expansion packs I’d have printed and cut out the night before. They’d go to my site and read — and play — my work. We even had a tournament set up in school for the card game.

Thank goodness some laughed. It gave me the strength to learn how to do novel things anyway, despite what others thought.

It’s worked out well for me so far. I have no plan on stopping. I hope you’ll join me.