2012-04-30, 03:01 AM
In terms of money i regret only ever spending on cubes and gacha.
In terms of life... i actually am GLAD i played MS. You'd think MS would be the cause of me being socially inept... but its actually done the opposite. at age 17 i suffered pretty bad from the inability to talk to almost anyone on a sensible level and couldn't open up to anyone at all. I was a pretty bad case, to the point that people who tried to approach me gave up cause i was so unresponsive emotionally due to fear, or would eventually close myself off assuming they'd eventually get sick of me.
I learned how simply saying hi to someone can result in making a friend, i learned the importance of revealing things about me to bring people to care. I learned to show my interest in the well being of others so that they know I approve of their presence. I learned that not everyone is 'the same' and wants to trash others all day, I learned that some pretty happy looking people are hurting pretty hard on the inside. Some of the most well balanced seeming people in this world are still pretty weird in ways, and that no one is really better than another. That not everyone who 'insults' you does it out of hate and may be a faithful friend waiting to happen.
I learned that i should be picking people, not sitting around hoping I get picked or living with what i get.
All things i never thought about nor knew for most my childhood I also learned other things, by playing female characters (something i didn't do until 2 years into MS) I learned to stand strong in my choices/beliefs and interests even in the face of those who dislike them, and learned that some people eventually do come to at least respect that if you don't resent them or run away.
I can't even begin to explain how warped my perception of people was back then... but in other words, by realizing the people in MS are just like the people in RL, i learned to get over my fear of people and took that with me into real life. Now people look at me funny when i said I didn't even have not one friend in high school.
I grew up more in 4 years of Maple than i did in 17 of life. True story.
In terms of life... i actually am GLAD i played MS. You'd think MS would be the cause of me being socially inept... but its actually done the opposite. at age 17 i suffered pretty bad from the inability to talk to almost anyone on a sensible level and couldn't open up to anyone at all. I was a pretty bad case, to the point that people who tried to approach me gave up cause i was so unresponsive emotionally due to fear, or would eventually close myself off assuming they'd eventually get sick of me.
I learned how simply saying hi to someone can result in making a friend, i learned the importance of revealing things about me to bring people to care. I learned to show my interest in the well being of others so that they know I approve of their presence. I learned that not everyone is 'the same' and wants to trash others all day, I learned that some pretty happy looking people are hurting pretty hard on the inside. Some of the most well balanced seeming people in this world are still pretty weird in ways, and that no one is really better than another. That not everyone who 'insults' you does it out of hate and may be a faithful friend waiting to happen.
I learned that i should be picking people, not sitting around hoping I get picked or living with what i get.
All things i never thought about nor knew for most my childhood I also learned other things, by playing female characters (something i didn't do until 2 years into MS) I learned to stand strong in my choices/beliefs and interests even in the face of those who dislike them, and learned that some people eventually do come to at least respect that if you don't resent them or run away.
I can't even begin to explain how warped my perception of people was back then... but in other words, by realizing the people in MS are just like the people in RL, i learned to get over my fear of people and took that with me into real life. Now people look at me funny when i said I didn't even have not one friend in high school.
I grew up more in 4 years of Maple than i did in 17 of life. True story.