PSA / REMINDER: You are currently living the good old days

You know since I started, and got absorbed in, this game a year and a half ago I've had those same thoughts roll through my head.

I moved to a whole new city in a whole new state and I don't make friends well because I don't like social gatherings. I had friends back home because I grew up with them.

I realize that without OSRS I'd probably be playing other games or watching TV or doing acid and melting into the grass, but all alone. OSRS has given me a comfortable setting to make new friends and have fun with them in a game we are enjoying.

The game is always there when I feel the urge to set a goal and accomplish it if I feel defeated with current IRL goals, it's a little bit of the achievement drug I need to taste to remember how it feels to get myself there.

Yes you're clicking pixels in a fundamental level but those pixels are much more than that. They're representative of your time spent, your in game skill developed, your friends and their time/skill. They're representative of a risk you can make or a challenge you can take or drive you can push. All without needing to impact you're outside world.

Life is about enjoying your time alive. The game might have kept you from an experience you would have enjoyed more, but it also may have kept you away from harm. Fear not for paths untraveled my friend, just enjoy your path and don't downplay anything you are enjoying because that's what it's really all about.

I don't know if any of that makes sense but I hope it sorta does.

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