When I realized it

I was 25 years old.

These years between

I had not chased my dreams, but supporting the dreams of others (idols)

My former otaku friends had returned to the real world.

I got myself a girlfriend.

I got a job.

I prefer hanging out with my other friends.

I had kept walking down the otaku's path without thinking of the future,

Sweat kept running down my back.

That's when it occurred to me. "Maybe this way of life of mine is terrible?"

The idols whom I had supported with all my time and money...

...had returned to being normal girls...

....enjoying student lives...

...or marrying some nobodies and becoming mothers.

--- shared a photo.

I alone hadn't grown up at all, or reached any kind of happiness.

All this time I had done nothing but wave glowsticks at girls on stage.

July 10th, I gave birth to a healthy girl. Days filled with anxiety kept piling up. My mother, father, sister... continue reading