Coffee goes well with any aspect of my life. Drinking coffee while finishing tasks at work? Perfect. Sipping iced coffee while clearing out the Spiral Abyss, even better. Gulping a liter of coffee while rethinking what I would do as I dive deeper into the dungeon of adulthood? Man, that's life saving. You might be wondering, where am I going with this? Well, I might have entered the level where real life situations are catching up with my gaming time.
When I was a kid, I was introduced to Gameboy by my cousin. Boy, I had a lot of good memories with it. I remember staying up late at night trying to finish up levels of Dig Dug, choosing my starter Pokemon in Leaf Green, I chose Bulbasaur by the way, and discovering how bad of a driver I am in Need for Speed. Since then, I never stopped playing. Unfortunately, the gameboy broke and then I met mobile and computer games. It started with Bounce Tales, Y3, Friv, Plants Vs. Zombies, then Flappy Bird flew in and out of the scene, Temple Run, Minecraft.
Playing horrendous amounts of games when I was in elementary and high school is my specialty. I actually make time just for it, I even play while having dinner, sometimes. But things took a complete 360 when I graduated from college, job hunting became the priority. I am not going to lie, it is the most exhausting part of my life to the point I crave to play games just to unwind.
Fast forward, I landed an office job where I met people that made me realize some important aspects of my life, which made me feel pressured into taking my "adulting" seriously. Since I am not really familiar with the crucial responsibilities of the position that I got, I started watching Youtube videos about it, I even attended some webinars. I agreed to have overtime on the weekend just to help the head of our department, thinking it could help me understand my work better. I was absorbed by the fact that I am in my "adulting" phase, as if I make "working girl" my personality. It came to me that in my 20's, I should be saving up for the future, buying a house, getting married, and having kids. Then this whole ideal burned me out. I haven't played any game in so long.
I craved playing again. I couldn't afford any consoles at the time and since I am very wary about buying secondhand ones, I got myself a decent tablet. I have been playing Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail on the weekends and sometimes with my boyfriend on weekday evenings.
I found it very refreshing to have my mind wander in a dimension while being caught up by work and life responsibilities.
So you can imagine my elation when my boyfriend gifted me my very own and first Nintendo Switch, not just a Nintendo Switch, but the Nintendo Switch Animal Crossing: New Horizons Edition, where later on, I was reunited with my beloved Animal Crossing and became friends with Persona 4 Golden. At this point, I thought I am going to be fine since I have plenty of games to run to when "adulting" is choking the life out of me, but man, I got burned out as well. I felt old. This isn't who I am, I can manage to play this amount of games before, maybe even more. What happened to me? I started to ask myself; is gaming still for me? Should I really be married and with kids at this age? I decided to have a little pause and let the thought of adulthood consume me again. Because, you know, I can play games but I cannot just play for the rest of my life. This thought needed coffee.
Now in my early 30's, I successfully defeated the battle of adulthood and game time. Still playing the same games, paying the bills and grinding at work but now, with more grace and control (just more coffee). Burn outs still occasionally occur but they are manageable now.
Miraculously, an amazing person invited me to be a writer on this website, where soon I will be sharing my game reviews and merely just yapping about anything gaming. That's about it, peace out!
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