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Brandish
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States339 Posts
April 01 2016 21:50 GMT
#1
Hey TL, its been a long long time since I've even thought about StarCraft or even visited TL, but I'd like to let whoever's reading to know what an enormous impact this entire community has had on me. I feel such nostalgia when I think about the glory days of sc2 right at the beginning of WoL. The entire time I was struggling with my own life and making my way through graduate school, TL and starcraft was there for me.

My previous 2 blog posts,

#1 from 2012
#2 from 2014
sort of chronicled my journey from was a pretty dark place to a similarly lost place 2 years later. about a year and a half later, which is now, I think i'm legitimately in a very emotionally stable spot in my life.

Some things that have changed in my life that i think are notable:
I've moved more than halfway across the country to a new city.
I have a very good job at a fairly prestigious establishment.
I have a hobby that I have committed myself to which eventually turned into actual passion.
I've cut out anybody who has a negative impact on my life.

Otherwise, I don't think my quality of life has changed drastically and I am still talking to the same friends as well as making new ones. The biggest difference was that I did what I wanted to do, and not what I thought other people wanted me to do. Previously I had spent so much time trying to please other people that I didn't really pay attention to what I wanted to do for myself, which turned out was just doing as much nothing as possible.

I'm sure nobody actually cares, but maybe someone will read this who was in a similar position that I was in 4 years ago and can read this and know that at some point things may work out. not only that, but its also kind of cool that I had a sort of hobbit type thing going on where I journeyed through life experiences and eventually found where I needed to go without knowing what I was trying to achieve. TL is basically home, whether I know it or not, and its so refreshing to say that on the whole, I am happy.

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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19177 Posts
April 01 2016 23:09 GMT
#2
I had a roughly similar experience, though minus the moving across the country part.

At some point I can't pin down, my mentality switched from "all these other people are doing these things and they seem happy, and I'm not doing these things and I'm sad, but I don't want to do these things" to "fuck you I do what I want" and now I'm much happier.

So you do you, buddy, and I guarantee it's good. Unless you find joy in murder or something then I'm gonna have to recommend psychiatric help.
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Topin
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Peru10095 Posts
April 02 2016 02:56 GMT
#3
im glad everything is going well for you. best wishes
i would define my style between a mix of ByuN, Maru and MKP
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