What does my little pony mean to you?

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ilikebothg1andg4ponies

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To me, it' something that you can use to um... get away from life. what does it mean to you?:LOL:
 
Mostly nostalgia.
 
Something to make me smile, something to buy and something to keep myself occupied.
 
What does it mean to me?

Well, it started out as my version of barbies (I was never into Barbie) when I was little. Now it has turned into great memories of shopping for new ponies as treats with my grandma in Toys R Us (gosh, I remember picking out my princess ponies like it was yesterday!). Now, it has become a staple in my weekend shopping / browsing. It's something to keep me from worrying about my daily life. Takes me back to the simplicity of childhood. It's a nice getaway when studies, work and life get to be too much.

In short, I'm thankful for the rekindling of the hobby I loved so much as a kid. Glad I listened to my grandma and kept my original collection. It's only been upped by the fact that I'm artistic and can customize and restore them now as an adult.
 
I means happiness to me and all kinds of childhood memories :smilepony:
 
My childhood best friend and I would have been pony people big time, were we not of an earlier generation. So therefore, sadly no "happy memories"--although we're building them! My son discoverEd them (long before FiM), sucked me in, and now they represent something we can share as an interest together. So to me, they mean fun, playfulness, revisiting the inner child, and above all, a connection to my son and other people (fairs, meets, forums--new friends!).
 
Holding on to that last shred of childhood. I feel like I'm under so much pressure to grow up, and I'm not sure I'm ready to do that. I don't think I'll ever be fully ready. Ponies remind me of when things were a lot simpler, and there weren't things like AP classes and college essays clogging up my life. I use them to remind myself that even though I have to grow up on the outside and enter the "big girl" world, I can still be a kid inside. When people ask me what I want to become (which just about everyone I meet asks me; it gets tiring), sometimes I'll jokingly tell them I want to be Peter Pan. Many a true word is said in jest. That's what MLP means to me: struggling to hold on to my childhood while still having to grow up.

Well, I didn't expect to write that much. A little deeper than I meant to get :p
 
There's just nothing like having a crappy day and coming home to find a cute little pony in the mail. Brings back the days of being a kid and playing ponies with my cousins.
 
To be honest I *thought* I never had them as a kid, I didn't even remember them til my mom reminded me very recently cause I had them when I was little and I was always into "boys toys" so I quickly lost interest and went back to G1 joes and Star Wars and nerf guns, heh. SO it does not remind me of child hood. But what is does do is allow me to forget about the stress of my every day life and think about what pony I want next and wash my ponies hair (condition really) and clean them and display them and all that, and there's SO MANY I can lose myself in looking at the different ponies and making, (and editing, re-editing, saving, opening and editing, and re-editing THAT too, lol,) my wishlist. It really keeps my mind off of all the stress me and my husband go through in our daily lives! And they're so cute, and sweet, and welcoming I guess. They just look so nice and it's really precious, idk. It's like if they were real they'd just be so happy and love you no matter what. Is that weird? lol :LOL:
 
^GI joes lol not G1 joes....see where my mind is at all the time now? PONIES! haha
 
Rainbows, sparkles, and an outlet for my Obsessive Compulsive disorder.

Oh and a blank canvas for my art outlet.
 
For me they mean childhood memories, as I did have them as a child as I loved all horsie things even though I was more into hot wheels cars and marbles and coin collecting, which all of I still have and I have a massive collection of coins!

But to me they are also what keeps me happy through the tough times I'm trying to deal with, and I was forced to "grow up" from an early age so it helps me feel like I'm not missing out on a nice childhood.. won't go too deep into that :tongue:

And to me they are the only constant in my life, and also a therapeutic thing for me as I love to clean them and fix them up the very best I can, nothing better to ease a troubled mind than to brush a ponies' hair! Repairing them makes me feel better and happy.

Also, they are an art outlet for me, I have made a few customs but only on extremely common or absolutely unfix-able ponies.
Basically, they are nostalgic, make me happy, keep my OCD and BPD in check, and keep me creative!

And I just adore them all! :smilepony:
 
For me, it means being happier than something happy (So creative :tongue:), and it makes me feel like I belong:smilepony: Unlike anime where I'm criticized for not know of a certain series... I love My Little Pony more than anything! :LOL:
 
I was the perfect age in the 80's to appreciate them right when they came out so childhood memories bring a comfort when I see them. They are a fun hobby to hunt and find them and clean them up. I love the smell of them.
 
Also trying to feel things again with something I enjoy and makes me happy helps me to be able to touch and feel things again, because I cannot feel things, and haven't for a long time.
They aren't a 'cure' but are helping me in even the tiniest way :smilepony:
 
Beauty and desire
 
I think it means that I loved my childhood because MLP were there. :)
 
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