My maplestory life
I started maplestory about 4-5 years back I would like to take to reflect on how maplestory affected me.
In the 8th grade, my friends and I gathered in one of my friends house to finish a project.
For the duration of the visit, which was about four hours, he played maplestory. I passed the
game off and thought of him as a nerd, he plays maplestory, what a no-life loser, but I realized that around
my middle school more and more people played this game. I wanted to see what was so interesting
about this game, so I too started to play the game, but I didnot find any part of it interesting but it was
addicting. The idea of getting better equips and killing higher level monsters and using new
more powerful skills drove me to addiction, I played from the time I came back from school until the time I slept
and did my homework at 6 in the morning before leaving for school. I knew that I had to straighten up my life
but I couldn't because I would forget all my problems when I logged on, leaving me no time to fix my problems.
My problems would just accrude, my grades
were dropping, but then I didnt have to think of that when I logged on, I just thought about the new skills and
equipment I was able to obtain. My mother would tell me that I was playing this game too much, but that would just
frustrate me. My lack of academic achievements because of my addiction to this game put me into a deep depression in
the freshman year of high school, I was used to getting in the top 10% of everything, but now that seems all but impossible.
My main goals in life were to succeed academically but they were intercepted by this game. My grades were lackluster, and
after joyful time of playing on maplestory, I would just curl up my bed, very depressed, anxious, because my dreams of
excelling academically were shaddered. Although I didnot contemplate suicide, I have thought about the meaning of life
and thought there were none and death was inevitable, so whats the point of living. By the sophmore year, I met this
girl and I took a liking towards her, I said, I have to work harder to impress her with my grades, I don't know if this is
true, but I always thought asian girls liked guys with high averages. I worked harder academically, and I took the game for
what it truely was made for, just a game to enjoy, I mistook the enjoyment of the game for something entirely different
I thought I only enjoyed the game by hardcore leveling, godly equips, putting my AP/SP in the right build, etc instead of
enjoying the game, such as just talking to friends and a boss run every once a week or two.
My grades started to rise
and I have since then made the school honor roll, which I thought I could never achieve when I was addicted. By my junior
year I have completely quit the game and scored within the top 5% of the SATs, and
recieved the Academic Merit grant which is only 375$, but whatever. Now after 4-5 years, I still play the game that almost
took away my life and future, but in a different prespective.