Sometimes fantasy can teach you more than reality by raikuhen

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Sometimes fantasy can teach you more than reality
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One of the things people loved to tell me when I was really young, something they repeated whenever they had the chance because they felt entitled to tell me what's good and what's not for me, is that I will never be able to achieve anything in life by playing video games all day long.

I've been passionate about games since I was 6 years old and when my parents got me my own computer two years later, I stopped going out, I stopped talking to people so much and I just spent as much time as I could playing games and doing my best to be as involved as possible in all those fantasy worlds.

One game in particular that I remember playing for hours was Gothic. Actually, a demo version of Gothic 1 that my mother got for me. She had no idea what the game was about. She just saw it in a shop, on a magazine, so she got it for me.

I used to play that game for hours and hours even tho I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, mainly because I didn't speak any English at the time. I barely knew how to tell someone what my name was.

But there was something about the world in Gothic (and any other game) that made me more excited about everything happening on that screen than anything that was happening outside of it, in the real world.

Something that surprised me whenever I finished playing games, something that a lot of people didn't see, was the amount of useful lessons I got from different characters and different scenarios, lessons I never got the chance to learn in real life.

For example, one thing I really liked about a lot of characters in games was honor. I was never familiar with the concept and if I had the chance to win something, I did everything in my power to win it no matter the cost. That lasted until I started playing games and I learned about honor, about what it means to be a "real" man and how to behave like one.

From games I learned that I need to be a gentleman, that I need to be just and fair with other people and how important is to not lie. I also learned how important knowledge is, how useful it can be to read a bunch of books and gain a lot of knowledge, and also how precious friendship can be.

If I think about my childhood, I honestly can't remember of any occasion when learning any of those lessons could've been possible in real life. The people I grew with didn't have any of those qualities and weren't interested in any of those things.

My parents didn't always have the time to tell me about what's good and what's bad, and the village I grew in wasn't the most pleasant place in the world. Games were the only things that made me happy while also teaching me important lessons I needed in life.

Different characters in games became my heroes, my mentors and helped me learn a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have learned otherwise.

If you're one of those people that love fantasy, of any way, be it in video games, drawings, movies or books, and you have to constantly deal with people who tell you how you should focus on your future because games/movies/books won't get you anywhere, remember this - there's a bunch of things you'll learn from fantasy worlds that those people will never be able to teach you. Focus on what you like and ignore them.
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