Hi, first of all I want to say my story isn't anything interesting, is just an ordinary story of how I've been maturing / changing while I've been playing / watching League.

I started playing League really casually, I wasn't really good and my friends were experienced at that moment (2009-2010). After that I played in between a lot of other games, CS:S, Starcraft 2... (and other non-competitive non-online games).

Everyone told me I had a bright future, and that I needed to stop playing videogames so much. It was true, but I used videogames (and League) to evade myself from my family problems (monopolized by my dad), also I thought it was a lot more interesting than most subjects in Bachillor.

My marks were dropping down, that caused my father (the cliche drunk dad) to get angry and yell at me and my mother. But I didn't feel like bearing with it anymore, I just replied to his arguments, we had some really strong fights. He needed to understand that even if I was doing wrong, I was the only one responsible for that. I found something that was evading me from my reality, and we both needed to change that.

He understood some time later, I also became more interested on the studies and became a Software Developer, during that time I've met a lot of people who played League and made a lot of friends.

Before I started playing League I had some serious depressions, that made me not a good person to socialize with if you couldn't understand that I didn't mean a lot of things that I said back in that time. I felt a lot more comfortable being in a smaller group of people than being with large groups.

Don't missunderstand me, I loved my friends then and I still love my friends now, but I can understand that I was being mean most of the time, I only saw everyone's mistakes and I couldn't do anything but feel pity for myself.

And a lot of you would be asking to yourselves what does any of this relates to League. Alright.

I changed because of League, I began to understand what was being mean, I got courage (to confront my problems) because I met a lot of good people and matured when playing, I raged a lot, and I even raged to my friends; they were aware that I just was like this because I'm so competitive; but that bothered me, I didn't want to be like that.

I learnt how to control my anger and my temper, I became a bit more of a calm person, even if sometimes I still get angered by comments; I became more cheerful, I learnt what was to really enjoy doing something (not only League, but I learnt what I did not want for my future, I didn't want to feel boredom doing my job, I wanted to find something that made me as excited as playing League. I changed, and even if sometimes I felt depressed and desperate, I felt lost... I felt happiness, I shared it with my friends, I found what I really wanted to do, I cleared my mind of my problems, I had time to think about what I really wanted to be like.

Learning from mistakes, or experiences, is the best way to learn, if you can do it in time, of course. And League was both a mistake and my best experience (I started playing a lot and that was bad, but in the end it kind of helped me in the end because I understood myself more).

I still play League, a lot less because I have a job right now that makes me have little time some weeks, but I love the job and I don't feel bored working in this company. I still watch competitive League and play, I still love playing ranked games and being competitive. I have learnt a lot about competitiveness and sportsmanship.

I love this game. Even if sometimes I get angered because of toxicity, I try to think about them as people who are passing through the same problems as I once did.

League has been with through all this time, hell it was difficult sometimes, but I had great moments and it's been part of my life. I still want it to be part of my life for many years. I just hope to enjoy the game as I did all this time.

Thank you for reading, I just felt like telling my story, a really ordinary one, yes, but my story in the end.