I can honestly say that I've been asked a million times

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I can honestly say that I've been asked a million times why I play games. Usually, I just shrug and say "It's a hobby."

But that's a lie.

Because when I'm in game, I'm at home.

My entire life, people preached that I could be anything that I wanted to be. But when I told them that I wanted to be the captain of a ship. A space ship. The space ship that saves humanity. That I want to be Commander Shepard. They told me that I need to get a grip on reality.

And to them, a grip on reality means the "American Dream."

Working nine to five, crammed up in a tiny cubicle, having 2.5 kids, living in a two story house with a white picket fence. I divorced once, and I have debt into my early 30s because I took some bullshit university degree that's supposed to help me in the end.

This isn't reality, this is just a dull outlook on it.

Now I understand that it's human nature to achieve greatness, but I can do this as Commander Shepard. I don't need a degree. And if I want to go on an adventure, I don't ever have to leave the comfort of my own home.

And besides being told I could enjoy a white picket fence at the end of my career, all my years as a student was a balance between fractal formulas and believing that I'd never be able to love.

Which is literal insanity.

But yet I'm the eternal virgin. I'm the guy that's never going to love.

And sometimes this shit doesn't make sense to me. Why people assume that I need to be out doing something, and away from home to have fun, when I have my own reality grasped between my hands.

I have my own world at my fingertips. If I screw something up, I can rewind time. I can't do that in real life. But when I'm in game, I'm free to do what I please, when I please. I'm free to enjoy things the way I want to. I can build my own kingdom and lead my people to freedom, because I'm the mind behind the game.

I'm the one who enjoys these games.

I am a gamer, and I always will be.