Irony

Day 1,470, 12:58 • Published in USA USA • by Agent Washington

I'm back!

And I seem to have forgotten all the rules of article writing and what not (third time's the charm right?).

Anyway I happened across Fionia's Writer's Challenge and figured I would give it a shot. So vote for me if you like it.

So I looked back across my elives and realized that there were a lot of things I was proud of, many things I had done and many people I met along the way. But luckily for me in the two years of time I have had ties to this game one stood out brighter than any other moment ever could in my mind.

I quit.

Not the day that I quit, I've quit many a time before, nothing to be proud of if you fail. No, this was two weeks later when I realized that I had actually escaped the unnatural pull this game had on me for 18 months. That somehow I had discovered something new, and different. A real life, with people I can see face to face, people who I can punch in the face when they irritate me, people I can actually hug when something goes wrong.

So it's not that I am proud to have quit per say, it's that I learned from the people here. I learned to trust that the computer screen wasn't necessary, that the alias I used wasn't the only way to meet people. I am proud that I trusted myself to back away from all of that to go into the real world and apply what the people here taught me.

I'm proud to count many of you amongst my friends.

So on that note I have one final thing to say.

Thank you.
For being great people, people I am proud to have met.
For being great teachers, even if you didn't get to see me grow.
For being great friends, ones who I know that when I leave I can still
call friends, ones who I know that when I come back will still be there.

Now for the true irony of it all, I am still going to stay in my state of quitting in the game, I do visit IRC fairly often, as a friend wanting to talk, don't be afraid to say hi. I am proud that I can come back and write something, that I can log in without needing to go look at this, that and the other thing and find myself just as involved as I was back then. If I manage to win something from this for some ungodly reason I certainly don't need it. I ask that the prize be donated to ST6, they are truly great people who made my last months in this game worthwhile and fun.