Things You Never Thought You'd Do · 2:28am Jan 13th, 2014
Hey guys. Ever been doing something that you never thought you'd ever do? The kind of thing you thought about and said "I'll never do that". For whatever reason; money, personality, ability, whatever. I just had one of those moments.
Before I tell you what I was doing, bit a background on myself.
I am a geek. I am a nerd. And I am a self-taught tech-head. My father is a mechanic, and had been for the last 30 years. He is the stereotypical man, more specifically, a motorcycle enthusiast. He's not one of the stereotypical long-bread bald-head bikers, but he certainly knows people like that and for a time was in that category. So, it makes sense he and I don't have a lot in common. He's tried to get me into more "manly" things, but he's never down right pushed me, for which I am grateful. I know a lot of people who's parents push them to be more like themselves.
However, while I may not be into the whole biker thing, I do enjoy riding. Riding through the mountains in BC on the back of a bike is just about the most awesome thing you could ever do. But I never thought much more about it.
So, when I looked up from tightening a bolt and realized I was helping my father rebuild a '96 Harley, you can imagine my surprise. It's never something I thought I'd do, simply because I never had a real interest for it. And, to my surprise, I'm actually enjoying it. We just finished putting the engine back together today, and next time I go out to his house we'll be putting it back in the bike and starting to rebuild the rest of it.
I never thought Id do something like this. I'm a nerdy geek with no interest outside computers, and there I was knee-high in grease building an engine. It's an interesting experience, and when I get to go for a ride when it's done, it's gonna be even better.
Anyway, that's my "I never thought I'd do that" story. Now I want to know yours. Have you ever found yourself doing something that you never thought you'd do in a million years? Have you realized you enjoy something that everything about you implied you'd hate? Let me know in the comments.
Cheated Dreams will update soon.
Until then,
Kodeake out
My thing would be... joining this fandom
When I first heard of this crazy pony cartoon and the fandom back in the mids of 2011 to be truly honest, I laughed. It just seemed so absurd that teenagers and grown people would watch a cartoon about colourful ponies and stuff. Don't take me wrong, I always loved cartoons, but back then the idea of watching PONIES was just absurd.
And then I watched it, first and second episode, then the third forth and fifth... right about then I felt the one of the biggest shames of my life, I felt like just going outside and telling random people to punch me in the face for laughing at this cartoon and fandom.
And now? Here I am, Brony, wearing T-shirts with ponies on them, listening to music by Bronies, having Pony accessories and many more.
Just one of things that I thought I would never do in milion years, and now its one of the things that I am most greatful for in my life
And /) to your dad.
2012 Fat Bob driving Brony here
I have to say that it was photography for me. I had never really been interested in the arts except for literary and an occasional drawing here and there but never would you find me near a camera. I had gotten an art class 7th grade and we did photography and I didn't have much feel for it.
Come 8th grade I had a media class and we did photography again and I found that I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. In fact I'm hoping to take photography next year as a sophomore and maybe get my own camera and make something out of it.
Ironically you need patience for this (obviously) and I don't have any for anyone or anything
so it shouldn't be something I enjoy but here we are. 
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I'm actually a photographer myself. I have a friend who actually runs his own photography business and is rather successful. I'm about to get a new camera too, $500 worth of amazingness.
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I think that's the same for a lot of people. I wasn't like that towards the show, but I know a lot of people who were. i was actually surprisingly accepting from the beginning, but I also started a lot younger then most bronies I know did (I was introduced when I was 13) so it was a lot easier for me to accept and admit to liking something like this.