Wow, this is an amazingly written article.

Actually, forget the writing skills. The content here is something I think a lot of us can relate to in our own way, different details, same feeling.

Amazing read.

Syrii

Netherlands216 Posts

August 27 2012 22:16 GMT

#222

Great read! Inspirational, relatable and really well written. Thanks for sharing!

EffervescentAureola

United States410 Posts

August 27 2012 22:38 GMT

#223

You have a gift for storytelling. Best of luck to you.

Burns

United States2300 Posts

August 27 2012 22:52 GMT

#224

Wow, what an amazing read, you really put your heart into it and i was able to see some of my emotions that i live with in you

also
"I'm so white, it's actually illegal for me to claim an ethnicity."
i loled

HexSCII

Canada115 Posts

August 27 2012 22:54 GMT

#225

Thank you for writing this.

Cele

Germany4016 Posts

August 27 2012 23:08 GMT

#226

great writeup. I think we all partly feel this way.

Chemist391

United States366 Posts

August 28 2012 06:42 GMT

#227

You've reinforced my desire to go to Mars after I earn my chem Ph.D.

Lovedoll

Japan540 Posts

August 28 2012 07:35 GMT

#228

This is some pretty powerful stuff. I too know what it's like to follow a dream, have it slowly fade away and think nothing of it at the time, and then look back feeling nothing but regret. I know that it's tough and even I'm at a point where I'm 24 now with no idea where I'm headed, but I do my best not to let it get me down. I know that i'll find something else that's right for me.

TerranTechie

24 Posts

August 28 2012 09:51 GMT

#229

Well-written but the "no one knows" repetition was a little over-dramatic. I hope you realize that the true beauty of your Starcraft dream was that it showed you what you are capable of when you are self-motivated. As I have grown older, I've learned that it doesn't matter if you don't achieve your childhood dream as long as you learn what true motivation makes you capable of and you use that to achieve your adult goals. If you don't have any, then find what would make you happiest in this world and go after it with that same drive.

Good luck. If you were capable of everything you claim in this article, you are capable of anything. =D And you can still enjoy Starcraft along the way.

thurst0n

United States611 Posts

August 28 2012 13:16 GMT

#230

Great post. This just proves the old adage: Do what makes YOU happy. Typically you hear the emphasis on the happy. But to me that's implied. If you choose to do something that doesn't make you HAPPY then that's your own damned fault. In this case you found other things to fulfill you. Don't underestimate the social needs of a human being, they are strong. Obviously Sustenance and Shelter are the most important needs, but everyone needs to have social interactions, whether that be with your family(sister) or friends(other girls) bottom line is, we all need some human connection. Of course you can find that through starcraft, but you don't have to.

Don't be sad because you chose a life that was going to give you what humans need. You see the other path as one to SC2 Progamer fame. But solitude and loneliness can lead to depression, which is obviously not good.

And also don't be sad because, as the great Led Zeppelin song goes 'There are two paths you can go by, but in long run, there's still time to change the road you're on'

pubbanana

United States3063 Posts

August 28 2012 17:57 GMT

#231

Ellessar_GR

United States37 Posts

August 28 2012 22:39 GMT

#232

I don't think i have ever read anything like this. I am deeply moved.

I also can relate to some big extend to your fading dream. I had one when i was 13 and now at 31 it is gone.

But (and this is a big one), remember that it is not about the destination but about the voyage that you make to get there. Your dream improved you, it made you evolve, this is what you should keep from the story. Look at it out of the box of your personality, as some 3rd person. It does not matter that you could not get there in the end, in never does, truly.

I myself found a new goal in life, the Nobel prize in physics. Aim high and work hard, you how.

Zealos

United Kingdom3576 Posts

August 28 2012 22:55 GMT

#233

Absolutely fantastic.

WorldEater

United Kingdom24 Posts

August 28 2012 23:23 GMT

#234

Great read. Both sad and inspirational.

We promise we wont lose sight of our dreams.

rogzardo

610 Posts

August 29 2012 01:59 GMT

#235

I have lol'd myself to sleep that so many people are 'deeply moved' by this.

It's a god damn video game. This dude actually left his house to go meet girls and go to parties. He made the right decision. If he had stayed in his apartment, by himself, playing starcraft all day, then he'd have a real reason to lament broken dreams and a wasted youth.

Dacendoran

United States825 Posts

August 29 2012 02:33 GMT

#236

This was a seriously well written blog.

pubbanana

United States3063 Posts

August 29 2012 09:52 GMT

#237

pubbanana

United States3063 Posts

August 29 2012 09:53 GMT

#238

On August 29 2012 10:59 rogzardo wrote:
I have lol'd myself to sleep that so many people are 'deeply moved' by this.

It's a god damn video game. This dude actually left his house to go meet girls and go to parties. He made the right decision. If he had stayed in his apartment, by himself, playing starcraft all day, then he'd have a real reason to lament broken dreams and a wasted youth.

Now everyone can enjoy your perspective.