[Serious] What life event(s) permanently changed your personality?

When I was younger, I was friends with a girl on Runescape.

I live in a very rural area, and I didn't have any friends outside of school, so I'd get on nearly every day to talk to her. She was honestly one of my best friends. Someone joked that we were like siblings and it stuck. Honestly, it wasn't far off. We'd hang out, train together, and just talk for hours almost every single day for about a year or two. There was a stretch of maybe a month where she didn't get on at all and I was a bit depressed over it because I'm the type of person who always assumes the worst.

Anyway, one day after school had let out for Christmas break, we were talking and she told me that she loved me. I know, it's stupid, but I was floored. I sat there, frozen, for like five minutes trying to find something to say because she was someone I really liked and that kind of thing just didn't happen to me. My heart literally skipped a beat.

While I was sitting there like an idiot, she quickly typed "lol jk XD" and immediately logged off. I'm still not sure if she was joking or not. I just know that I haven't seen her since.

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