A Real Story about A WoWholic
When did you touch World of Warcraft for the first time? Under what kind of circumstances did you enter World of Warcraft? Are you addicted to this game? Does it make you be divorced from real life? This blog tells you a real story about a WoWholic. To evade real life, he entered the World of Warcraft. Then he tried various methods to come back to real life when he realized that he need to say goodbye to World of Warcraft. Luckily, he succeeded in the end. Wanna know how he made it?
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I was going to school full time in NYC and working. Because of an issue with my family, I became depressed. I stopped going to class, quit a good job for a lamer one... and reinstalled WoW. Instead of dealing with my issues, I ignored them by grinding reputation for a mount while my wife was at work...
I was on the verge of losing the person I cared about most over something that really didn't matter to me and had ZERO real life benefits. I agreed to and went to a counseler... and that helped eliminate my depression because I was no longer a passive variable in a world I didn't pay attention to.
I uninstalled WoW and haven't played since. I do read up on the blogs on occassion, and I actually find that that solidifies why I don't play. There is no way to keep up and I don't feel like getting wrapped up in a never ending adventure while my real life crumbles...