Anime made me who I am now

I was just a normal girl who first knew anime pretty much like a majority of people: from local television that happened to broadcast some anime series. Before I knew anime, I had things that I loved, but unknown to me why, I couldn't be crazy about it, I didn't feel like bragging about it to people, I didn't feel the need of buying merchandises or anything at all - just that I liked it, and that was all. But one certain anime changed it all and it didn't stop there.