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Ok, I will start out with the basics,
My name is Collins, I am 14, and here in the South video games are not appreciated like football or art is. I love art, I draw, I have won many competitions, but art is not for me, it is a past time. My parents have told me through the years to be what I want to be only if it makes me happy. I picked up Starcraft a week after it was released to the public in stores. I was addicted to the game for a 2 weeks, quit, and did not play for 4 months. I came back and played Customs, and now I am laddering with some online friends, trying to get to the top. My parents hate this idea (if you have read in my earlier blogs they have always said "Do what you love." and gave a weak smile) But now they have told me that it is a horrible idea. so horrible. They say I wont make money and I wont be happy. How do they know what I will be happy with? Yes I know I wont be rich and famous like every parent wants their child to be, but I will be happy. I may live in an apartment but I want to do this. This game is the only thing that keeps me going. I know this sounds stupid coming from a 14 year old kid, but I have no friends, I have no social life. I just love this game. I know many people can relate, that is the gamer community, we grow up playing super mario or some shit and finally just grow an addiction and love for video games. But I keep trying to explain to my family that this is no ordinary video game. This is not one of those Call of Duty games you buy, play for a week, and realize you could have saved and bought a new motherboard for your computer. My parents do not support me; I have come to the conclusion that this website, teamliquid.net, the starcraft community, and my friends online will support me. Although my parents might change through the years, I doubt it. They are stubborn and hate that I play these things, they would rather me be an artist or a musician. Both of those jobs don't have a high salary, funny huh? I think they just hate the idea that I would be playing video games for a living. I do not know what to do. They have already tried telling me to not play as much because it is hurting me. What is it hurting? I have the exact same personality, I am not violent, I am thinking more logically and can solve problems better. Its just the thought... right? The thought that gamers are just there, people who cant make a living so they sit in their room and play. Whatever.
Thanks for reading this rather horribly written blog,
CabelD
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So, I'm guessing you don't have friends IRL to play SC2. What is your ID? I want to add you  .
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Jagerbomb.744 -- Yeah sick name right? Ill have to explain how I got the name in another blog.
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Well said. And it is probably as promising than art if you keep working and can make a popular stream, which makes some people a ton of money.
Feel free to add me as well, Darclite.257
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They have already tried telling me to not play as much because it is hurting me. What is it hurting? I have the exact same personality, I am not violent, I am thinking more logically and can solve problems better.
This may be true, but if gaming is hurting your social life, that may be a problem. Being able to interact well with others is an essential skill, it doesn't matter if you are a clerk at McDonalds, an engineer, an artist or a progamer.
I can assure you that your parents do support you, they probably don't understand the nature of progaming (who can blame them really) and just want the best. They are totally right that being a progamer is incredibly difficult, and it's very very hard to be able to support yourself. Anyways, it's so early to really be planning on doing anything seriously at 14. Don't hamper yourself by doing only one thing at this stage in your life, whether it be football, art, schooling or gaming.
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Perhaps create or join a gaming club at your school. You can meet people in that way and still play games. There's bound to be people at your school who play games as well and you can introduce sc to them.
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Yo join the party! I'm also a 14, though i do have a social life. however my story can completely be related with yours. before, my parents were like "oh we support you in w.e. you want to do". now that im in high school (frosh) and beginning to be covered in the vast shadow that is college, my parents always scream at me when i get like a B+ how im never going to succeed and not even community college wants me. what i say is, try and make friends, have some irl sc2 friends so you can play sometimes, and you'll be more happy. as for your parenting problem, i really can't help. i'm also stuck in a hole right now like you. just keep your head held high man.
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...Don't say you love something because it's all you have. Don't do something because it's all you can do. Do it when you have every opportunity in the world and you choose this one instead of all the others. That's what love is.
What you have now is a problem. It's called not having a life. You need to get a healthy lifestyle and not try to substitute a video game for an entire life. Get a good sleep/eat/exercise routine, get some friends, learn what talents you have and develop them, then play SC2.
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On June 06 2011 06:42 StorkHwaiting wrote:
...Don't say you love something because it's all you have. Don't do something because it's all you can do. Do it when you have every opportunity in the world and you choose this one instead of all the others. That's what love is.
What you have now is a problem. It's called not having a life. You need to get a healthy lifestyle and not try to substitute a video game for an entire life. Get a good sleep/eat/exercise routine, get some friends, learn what talents you have and develop them, then play SC2.
yea but then you never get good at anything. if you don't make sacrifices you don't get anywhere in life. if you wanna be the best you have to give up certain things. fuck having friends. i have one friend and my fiancee and thats all i need. having too many friends is just a waste of time. to much drama comes from that. more friends=more drama and its just annoying. and yes in high school i had lots of friends and it was exhausting.
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On June 06 2011 07:19 Xsoild wrote:Show nested quote +On June 06 2011 06:42 StorkHwaiting wrote:
...Don't say you love something because it's all you have. Don't do something because it's all you can do. Do it when you have every opportunity in the world and you choose this one instead of all the others. That's what love is.
What you have now is a problem. It's called not having a life. You need to get a healthy lifestyle and not try to substitute a video game for an entire life. Get a good sleep/eat/exercise routine, get some friends, learn what talents you have and develop them, then play SC2. yea but then you never get good at anything. if you don't make sacrifices you don't get anywhere in life. if you wanna be the best you have to give up certain things. fuck having friends. i have one friend and my fiancee and thats all i need. having too many friends is just a waste of time. to much drama comes from that. more friends=more drama and its just annoying. and yes in high school i had lots of friends and it was exhausting.
having friends is better than not having friends at all.
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On June 06 2011 07:19 Xsoild wrote:Show nested quote +On June 06 2011 06:42 StorkHwaiting wrote:
...Don't say you love something because it's all you have. Don't do something because it's all you can do. Do it when you have every opportunity in the world and you choose this one instead of all the others. That's what love is.
What you have now is a problem. It's called not having a life. You need to get a healthy lifestyle and not try to substitute a video game for an entire life. Get a good sleep/eat/exercise routine, get some friends, learn what talents you have and develop them, then play SC2. yea but then you never get good at anything. if you don't make sacrifices you don't get anywhere in life. if you wanna be the best you have to give up certain things. fuck having friends. i have one friend and my fiancee and thats all i need. having too many friends is just a waste of time. to much drama comes from that. more friends=more drama and its just annoying. and yes in high school i had lots of friends and it was exhausting.
Not all friends are useless drama queens that have no talents, connections, or information to offer. Maybe you should widen your social circle instead of deciding 6 billion people are a waste of time.
Second, your notion of "give up certain things" to be the best is quite vague. What exactly are you talking about giving up? And what are you trying to be the best at? This sounds like some half-boiled college kid theory on life. You rarely need to be the best in any field to achieve success and earn a good living.
Nor is it healthy to have a social circle consisting of one friend and a fiancee. Friends move away or are busy. Fiancees can leave you. Then you're left with what as a safety net? In your work, you have no need whatsoever for networking? What happens if you lose your job? No references? No tips? No friends of friends? That's a pretty barren and precarious life imo.
I think it's really strange that you equate healthy sleeping, eating, exercising, and socializing to never getting good at anything. I'm almost positive a number of people are "good" at something while also having functional lives.
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Being a 23 year old on his last semester in college, and hating that career choice, I can still say you're making a huge mistake by choosing to play videogames as a living. It's just not realistic unless you get extremely lucky and are amazingly talented (moon, grubby, justin wong, s class bw koreans, etc.).
You can try for it while you're young, but don't give up on school and shit while you're doing it.
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Question: How are you doing in school?
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On June 07 2011 03:54 CabelD wrote:
B's
If you're 14 and getting B's at ALL in high school I say tone down the Starcraft. Make some real friends too.
I've lived your life, and at 14 I played a shitload of Starcraft: Brood War. But at that time I had many real friends, supportive parents, and straight A+'s in school. It wasn't until girls and university that my marks started to drop, but I'm still on track for life anyway.
Don't play too much Starcraft.
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On June 07 2011 04:47 TheGiz wrote:If you're 14 and getting B's at ALL in high school I say tone down the Starcraft. Make some real friends too. I've lived your life, and at 14 I played a shitload of Starcraft: Brood War. But at that time I had many real friends, supportive parents, and straight A+'s in school. It wasn't until girls and university that my marks started to drop, but I'm still on track for life anyway. Don't play too much Starcraft.
Chill bro, you can get B's and be okay. I got a D and 2 C's in high school and still went to an ivy league, granted you've got to have awesome AP/SAT test scores, extra curriculars, and essay but grades aren't that important.
Anyways, you should probably just treat gaming as a hobby right now. If you eventually get to high masters/grand masters you might want to consider it as an occupational possibility but really, for every Idra out there there's 2000 people who want to be him. Go make some friends, have fun, its high school.
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