| Yesterday... 2-12-13
CiCelia... this girl I've been trying to avoid came over.
She's annoying. I had previously been watching a long play of Zelda: Twilight princess. A game I never got to play. Rewind a few years.....
2002, Summer.
I pre-ordered Zelda: the wind waker
Later that year horrible things happened. I was depressed... I was still a virgin then, but that's not why I was depressed. I just really loved this girl, Ashley white. I was too shy to talk to her. I'd been learning to skateboard and I wasn't doing very well in it. My older brother and sister were upset I had bought a 24" katana, a few throwing stars, two sets of throwing cards and had a collection of "evil" comic books including Johnny the homicidal maniac. They threw away my comics... I fucking paid my 3rd of the rent and had my own room and they invaded my space and threw away my comics and they'd always tell me I'm an evil person and they were scared of me cause I was collecting weapons and they weren't sure if I might attack them with them.... all paranoid horseshit.
I had a t.v. in my room and my gamecube and I played my games in my room and kept to myself, cause they were so rude to me and always so judgmental. I worked at Kaufmanns [now owned by Macy's and renamed "macy's" in all locations.].
I'd gotten some special Zelda collectors disc for pre ordering wind waker. There was some girl I kinda liked at work. I was too shy to ask her out. Looking back it seemed like she liked me too. I wasn't really upset about it, just really shy. One of my co-workers, Bryant, would always chat with me and he gave me his number. I guess he wanted to be friends... but I had it stuck in my head that no one liked me. I grew up being told this all the time. So I never called him to hang out. He'd text and chat sometimes and he was pretty cool... I just had it in my head no one liked me.
I was a very sad person. The best part of my days were when I played my gamecube in my room and I was left alone. I'd play my gamecube and play the demo's of wind waker or the other games on the disc [A game cube adaption of Ocarina of time and ocarina of time master quest (essentially the original game was incomplete when it was released and master quest had a few more puzzles in the dungeons and slightly more enemies. It wasn't much more difficult though...)]. I would skim through the booklet that gave a preview of wind waker and described some of the characters and showed a bit of the artwork. I'd occasionally check out my 24" sword. Mostly just look at it, then sheath it and put it back under my bed. Or sharpen my stars and cards. I'd read my comics and the new ones I had. Sometimes I'd clean my skateboard or look at the collection of decks I had . My room was the best part of my day, just relaxing in there. I was happy in there.
I was enrolled in school and had a job. Everything was working out. Soon I'd have a degree and move out and never speak to my brother, sister, or any of my family again. I'd be free and have my own home. If girls didn't like me, oh well, I had my games and comics and collection of sharp objects. My sketch book. Life was going to be alright, even if it was alone.
One day my younger brother spent the night. He had a bed wetting problem. He wet the bed. He was sleeping in my sisters room. She took his peed up mattress and put it in my room in the morning. I confronted my little brother and asked, politely and calmly [I'm always polite and calm with him... and I used to wet the bed to, so I'm not going to flip out on him about something I was ridiculed about], why he put his blanket in my room. He was 10 I was 19. He said my sister put it there, not him. So I grab the blanket and put it in her room and she flips out and tells me to leave the house. I said it's my house as much as hers and I'm not leaving. She attacks me and throws a phone at me. I move out the way, then she leaves.
Later that night she threatens to call the police on me and say I hit her since I'm on probation [for a crime I never committed]. Probation for a crime she doesn't believe I committed. I leave the house only to get picked up by the police and arrested. The people who're supposed to be closest to me betrayed me and made up malicious lies over petty circumstances.
I go to jail for a day before I'm bailed out. I stay at my moms and I have no ride to school anymore and have to drop my classes. I can get there, but I'd have to cut work... i drop all my classes and decide to reschedule next semester to make up for my circumstances.... I just wanted to be free.
March 24th 2003.
. o O (Today is the day) I thought. I had scheduled off work that day and the day after. I road the bus to the mall and picked up Zelda: Wind Waker. I had been going to and from court since my sister dd that nonsense. I'd asked my mother to let me take Zach as a witness to tell what actually happened, she was being a stupid bitch about it all. She said he's too young and impressionable for court... I said "I'M GOING TO FUCKING GO TO JAIL BECAUSE SOMEONE'S LYING!!! DON'T YOU FUCKING CARE? I JUST WANT TO GET ON WITH MY LIFE, GO TO SCHOOL AND HAVE MY OWN PLACE!!!" But, today wind waker came out.
Today and tomorrow I wasn't going to worry about it. I played all day on my t.v. which I'd brought to my mom's house. I put on headphones and played all night. I didn't sleep. I kept playing. I was, during the time I played, happy. Nothing else mattered. My world was shattering around me. My family was ruining my life. At that time there was a girl, Melissa Rivas, I'd met from some church something or another I'd talk to on the phone. She was 17 and I was 19 I thought she was 18 and she thought I was about 17. I really liked her... but mostly it was wind waker that made me happy.
Looking back I feel like since I had my happiness, my one little piece of joy, it was enough to keep me happy enough to talk to a girl without being a complete pool of depression. My mom would yell at me for talking to her alone in my room... I've always been a private person, but my mom would make it out as if I was taking advantage of this girl and I'm some dirty pervert just cause I talked to her after 10pm. I was upset my mom put all these stupid rules about me talking to a girl I genuinely liked [and didn't have in mind to sleep with... I just wanted to spend time with her. I, oddly, never really thought about even kissing her... I just liked her company and how she made me feel].
I'd play wind waker and I was happy. Sailing the seas on a quest to save the world. Roaming free in the world. Free. Free to do what I want. Saving the world too.
Time passed and I still had my game cube. I had metroid prime 1 and 2. I had a DS. Metroid Prime 2 I could relate too... all too well.
I'd stopped talking to Melissa... for probably the dumbest of reasons... but still it seems like an okay reason also. Mostly I looked at where my life was. I didn't have a stable living situation, my family was crazy, I had little control over my life and I felt like it was going to end. I loved her and didn't want to put her through that shit. Not when I had a horrible family... no one deserved to deal with my family, especially not someone I cared about... My friend, who I knew from church, Clint, ran into me at the mall. him and his dad gave me a ride home and his dad was talking to me about it. It was after I'd already broken it off with her. He said "you gotta at least try and see where it goes." not verbatim, but pretty much that's what it meant. I still didn't fucking listen. I just didn't want her around my family. I don't want any girl I like around my family... to this day if I see a girl on OKCupid or PoF saying they're family oriented and family's a big thing and they want a guy who's close with his family I wont go anywhere near them. I wont talk to them. I avoid those girls. When I hear girls say that I avoid them.
I wonder what might've happened if I listened to him. But I didn't and my life is what it is.
So, I find out about Zelda:Minish cap. I'm living with My brother and sister in a condo our dad got for us. They don't bother me as much as they used to and I stay in my room more than normal. I just don't talk to them much. I play my gamecube.
I go down and to see Ashley B [a.k.a. Girl #2]. I play a rom of Minish cap and I love it. It's happiness.
I buy it as soon as it comes out in America. I just ignore my siblings, go to work, and save money and come home and play gamecube, but I get to play Minish cap whereever I am as long as I have free time. I play and play and it's that small part of happiness I have each day.
Fast forward...
2006.
Twilight Princess comes out on the gamecube and wii. I'm staying at my moms and end up having to sell my gamecube to buy food for my younger brother. To this day I wish I would've stolen food or something. I never played through another zelda game since. Nor any other games I really cared to play. That one little source of happiness and that one little escape I had at the end of the day was gone.
When I think about it that's what I've always had. When I was 4 and my family picked on me I'd play N.E.S. and zone out and forget they exist and be happy. I'd have my small piece of joy, even if just for a moment, each day. I no longer had it.
Yesterday.
I'd been watching a long play of Twilight princess. A long play, in videogames, is where someone plays through the game and records it so others without access [or desire to actually play] can watch the game and experience it. While watching it I started to feel that joy I used to feel. That peace I've always found in games. I guess it might be a psychological thing... association. It's something I've come to associate with peace and freedom and joy. It reminds me of blah blah blah blah blah. You know.
And this girl, this annoying fucking girl, comes over. I think I might want to fuck her maybe. It'd been a while since I last got laid. So I let her in. And... well I wish I didn't. Cause I really just wanted to relax and watch the long play. She's talking during it and wants to watch Archer... whatever I put on Archer cause she's ruining my video. I'd told her earlier she could spend the night... I wish I didn't [especially since I always keep my promises]. I'm trying to chill out and at least listen to music from Twilight princess... she's talking during that and saying irritating things about the music... I turn it off and she's blabbing on and on about shit I don't give a shit about. Really petty nonsense and superficial bullshit.
Then she goes to bed and eventually go to sleep with her. Horrible cuddler that girl... I start to have sex and her pussy smells like rancid fish... what the fuck? I stop and go in the other room to relax and watch my long play and she comes in and starts blabbing again...
I pretend to sleep and eventually she goes to bed and then I actually fall asleep.
She takes fucking forever to leave my house and she's still saying stupid petty nonsense... seriously, I just want her to go but I'm not mean enough to tell her to get the fuck out of my house.
So I go to this place I've been checking out for a job. I get one and I start tomorrow.
I decided that when I get money from my income tax I'm buying a new Zelda game and some headphones. Well I have a PS3... but fuck sony. I realize I function so much better in life when I have that one little thing to keep my happy. I feel like I might need it. I've been such a wreck the past 6 years and those years I didn't have it.
I used to be able to stay home all day and not even care about girls. And I was happy. HAPPY. That's a big deal for me. Being happy. I didn't think about suicide. I was just happy.
So I've been doing work, more than usual, towards planning to [in order of steps] 1. get a game that will make me feel happy for immediate happiness and 2. get my own fucking place where I can have whatever I want, collection of swords without stupid fucking sibs to flip out over them.
That's all I really need. This is what my life is about now, getting that and ensuring I can secure it. Anything that goes towards realizing that goal I'll do. _________________ I feel like the point of a community is to help where/when/however u can.
-Aceospades12
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