One year...
 

It's nearly midnight as I write this. I didn't watch Avatar until a few days into 2010, but I think this is appropriate as its' nearly Avatar's 1 year anniversary. I will try to keep this short as I bet many people will be writing their own around now. Right now, I'm thinking about the whole of last year, about how Avatar has changed me, about how I've done more in this year than I ever thought I would. I've met people who I am proud to call friends, my family even, people who truly understand and See me like nobody else I know, and I do with them. People who understand my thoughts, my love for Neytiri, my longing to go home to Pandora... People who feel the same way. I am thinking of all the great times and the bad times I've shared, I've had so much support from the people here and given mine in return when it was needed, there are far too many moments for me to list but I am thinking of every single one right now. On another note, ToS passed 9 months old 4 days ago (as of the 18th) and it makes me so happy to see what we have here, even if there have been some difficult times, we have a real family.

Here's to the years ahead until 2014 and then into the future, because we are a family there is none like, and even though we are all far apart, we are all united by Avatar :)
I can't wait for the sequel and until then, we have each other :)
:party:

Thank You HNM .. thank you

I'm like you, right now, embracing all that this year has meant and so grateful for you and everyone here!

Oel ngati kameie tsmukan!

Oel ngati kameie ma tsmukan

^ this.

Here's to one year of Avatar and many more to come! :D

Thanks HNM and everyone else for making this such an amazing community, united by love for Avatar, life, and each other. :party:

Oel ngati kameie brothers and sisters.

Very heartfelt post tsmukan...
CELEBRATION! :party:

Thank you HNM, and thank you, everyone else.

Wonderfully said HNM, and Oel Ngati Kameie. This year has been an adventure, for all of us, in all of our many dimensions of being, and it all began around this time last year, when we each donned our 3D glasses for the first time, unaware of what we were about to get ourselves into. The day we swallowed the red pill, which was ironically...erm...blue. :P

And here's to many more! :D

Indeed! :D

I'm going to watch Avatar this evening again :)

Oel ayngati kameie ma eylan! :)


<raises seedpod filled with kava, eyes up the dancing Na'vi ladies and wonders if he should join them>

Well said HNM.

*joins*
:D

*joins*

and this party needs more Neytiri ! cake :D

http://members.upcpoczta.pl/h.tymins...4e2cc37696.jpg

That's the word, I watched AVATAR last evening with my girlfriend and it felt amazing, I was remembering the experience had last year on the same day, same evening, same time. I am very glad AVATAR brought me, brought us here to this new understanding of things around us. Anyway, HNM said it better, so thumbs up HNM. :awesome:

Oel ngati kameie, ma tsmukan, ma tsmuke !

Wow, doesn't feel like it's been a year...

Absolutely right, time runs too fast... I couldn't even believe when I stand a little and thought about it "Already a year passed since them !? Impossible !", but here it is, we have to cope with it eventho' is kinda sad...

Oel ngati kameie :)

I am glad i found my way in this board and be also glad for all the friends i found here :)

May this be only one of many partys :)

1 year for USA today

1 year and I'm still obsessed with it.

I bet this obsession will go past many years for alot of us

One year...
 

I am so happy to have found this community and all of you guys! I honestly think without you all...... I'd have surely gone mad by now.

It's sad though that certain people have left, possibly never to come back! :(
But I am very thankful that we have what we have.... And I still haven't gotten bored of Avatar! ;) Don't think I ever will be fully bored of it.

I threw together a little header for the sake of celebration ;)

Yeah, it does tell the tale of our community since the founding of AF - at least in a somewhat symbolic way :D

I agree with what Marley said.

The best thing Avatar gave me was this place, these people...
This place has the power empower and to crush, to calm and to frenzy, to evoke thought, or to simply allow you to be. Of course, it is not the place that does all these things. It's the people who make it.

Of course, the other thing Avatar gave me was hope.
A new way, a new idea and a different aspect of life. Again, this new found way of seeing the world came with both it's pains and it's pleasures, but hopefully - not 'I', but 'we' - can find this special way or place we've been searching and pining for in our hearts. Something I not only hope we can do, but believe we can do.

So here's to a year.
I can't believe it's gone so fast, and yet, it also somehow feels like an age.

*Na'vi hugs the whole forum.*

:)

(Side note: Liking the banner! :P)

Oel ngati kameie ma tsmukan indeed! Aytsmuke si aytsmukan as well! I'm so beyond words to be proud of who I am today and who we are today and what we all are together today; I love you all and here's to more birthday celebrations to come!

*raises glass*

Just finished watching Avatar again... The tears which ran down my neck are just proof as to how amazing Avatar is, that is can still affect me so much, when I'd never even have thought it possible at all before.

To all of you, oel ngati kameie... :)

It's really hard to believe it's been one whole year... It's amazing to think of all what has happened in this long time... many new friends, ideas, ways to look at the world... How would it all look like today if there had been no Avatar...?

Had today to celebrate in Austria also an Avatar Watch again, first time the new Bluray Editon.. I can not tell in words how much i love Avatar and always be moved to tears when watching it :)

Dont think that this Emotional rollercoaster ride will lose its fascination and impact :)

Seeing the original Avatar forums banner and remembering last january-february has given me the chills, I wish we could go back

Yeah, I sometimes wish I could see it for the first time all over again

Someone has a copy of the original Avatar forums back in February, with all the posts and stats still the same, I can't remember who though...

Well said! My sentiments exactly! Happy Avatar Day/1-year Anniversary! Oel ngati kameie, People. :party:

Don't we all?:awesome:

I see every watch as the first time... Since the emotional impact is always the same :) I think this is also some way to keep the magic alive :)

Thanks to anyone and everyone who's made this whole experience what it is. Whether you're one of the original AF stalwarts or one of the newer ToS'ers...I'll always appreciate the wisdom you've shared, whether its related to Avatar or not, and thanks to all who have helped me when I've sought it, whether what you did was great or small...gosh I just feel glad to be here right now.

Man I really don't even want to think about that. I probably would still be playing WAY WAY to much online gaming and would probably be way less happy a person that I am now. Avatar changed my entire perspective on life and what it can be and is meant to be. Avatar inspired me to learn how to lucid dream, learn as much as I can about astronomy, deeply reflect on how we are treating the earth, deeply reflect and understand how screwed up our society is, and learn many more scientific and philosophical things. This has been the most significant year for me in all my 19 years and it is just the beginning. I never want to stop learning all I can and living each day to the fullest extent possible!!! All of this directly because of Avatar! Incredible. :awesome:

Its been an amazing year :). I am happy to have found Avatar Forums and TOS and I have met some really great people on here. Sure, there have been some peaks and valleys (I understand the symbolic heart on one of the pics on the banner). Avatar has changed me too. It has awakened in me a part of myself that laid kinda dormant for a while which I am glad is back :). I hope that 2011 will be an even better year and I hope that we can become a closer family.

It feels good to be home after a long day of work...

I spent the last few hours listening to the Avatar Full Score while staring at the stars that decorate my ceiling; thinking about every single day that has passed since I first saw Avatar.

I thought about my first viewing, the PAD and PAE trips that I have embarked on, I thought about the events that have taken place from my first viewing until now, remonissing about drawing Jake and Neytiri in my spanish class, writing a script for my Avatar short film, meditating in the forests while listening to the Score, joining ToS and A-F...finding a community that surprisingly made me realize that I was not the only one who had the same feelings, I thought about how this film emotionally affects me like no other, how this film stands out among every single other, I thought about building up hype to the SE during the summer, reading new threads about "this SE trailer, that SE trailer," watching the SE itself on the 27'th, watching the CE on the 16'th, and all-in-all how THIS FILM has affected me EVERY SINGLE DAY, and still continues to do so.

This film changed my life - our lives forever.
We would not be here right now had this film not been made.
I want to thank all of you for making this what it is. Irayo to James Cameron, and irayo to all of you.

Oel Ngati Kameie

I can toast to that, HotG! :D

Everyday, it still amazes me just how much Avatar has effected all of us and how it has allowed us to come together. This has never happened to me before, and I'm sure that's the same for everyone else here, too.

Common emotions...
Common dreams...
Common loves...
Common wants and needs...

...brought together by a common movie, one year ago today.

There has to be a connection, there has to be. Never before have I known a group of people who I can unquestionably and truthfully say I See.

Oel Ngati Kameie ma tsmukan si ma tsmuke.

So many people all sharing their memories and thoughts... it makes me so happy how we are not alone, as far away as we all are.
Avatar is an experience, there is nothing else like it. It continuing just shows how strong it is and that it will always be part of us :)