Earthbound as a pain reliever
The world inside our heads is sometimes beautiful sometimes awful. For those who live in a happy land, life is easy. They have a nice life, they are nice to people, they have a lot of friends... For those who are unhappy, mean, unsatisfied with their physical appearances, life is not easy. Inside their heads is a world full of turmoil. In order keep being sane, they need something to make their life less miserable. Some depend on other people, some on a movie (example: Star Wars) or some play video games...
I used to be unhappy, people insulted me and I didn�t care because they were not part of the real world... The real world for me was my head. I lived in a world were I was the hero of some stories involving the Earthbound universe. Some people were saying that I was sick. My parents thought I would become insane or something. Now that I am 18 years old, I realised a lot of things about life. I am now a very sane person and I do have friends. People say that living isolated in your world is a bad thing but I don�t think that way. In my case, my universe was a shield against the evil world. If I didn�t have that shield, I would probably be in jail or even dead right now. It is a bad thing if you cannot leave that world when you grow up. It is a good solution but only a temporary solution.
I haven�t played Earthbound in a year until last week. I got mad with my friend and I was very angry. To calm me down, I plugged my SNES and I started playing Earthbound. First, I was beating up enemies thinking of that guy. As I played I started to realise that it wasn�t just his fault. I was to blame too. So I kept playing and I kept thinking. After a while, I called my friend and said I was sorry. He was sorry too.
So I will forever be grateful toward Earthbound for helping me getting thru my teenage years. Thank you Mr Itoi. Earthbound was my cocoon and I am now a butterfly.
The world inside our heads is sometimes beautiful sometimes awful. For those who live in a happy land, life is easy. They have a nice life, they are nice to people, they have a lot of friends... For those who are unhappy, mean, unsatisfied with their physical appearances, life is not easy. Inside their heads is a world full of turmoil. In order keep being sane, they need something to make their life less miserable. Some depend on other people, some on a movie (example: Star Wars) or some play video games...
I used to be unhappy, people insulted me and I didn�t care because they were not part of the real world... The real world for me was my head. I lived in a world were I was the hero of some stories involving the Earthbound universe. Some people were saying that I was sick. My parents thought I would become insane or something. Now that I am 18 years old, I realised a lot of things about life. I am now a very sane person and I do have friends. People say that living isolated in your world is a bad thing but I don�t think that way. In my case, my universe was a shield against the evil world. If I didn�t have that shield, I would probably be in jail or even dead right now. It is a bad thing if you cannot leave that world when you grow up. It is a good solution but only a temporary solution.
I haven�t played Earthbound in a year until last week. I got mad with my friend and I was very angry. To calm me down, I plugged my SNES and I started playing Earthbound. First, I was beating up enemies thinking of that guy. As I played I started to realise that it wasn�t just his fault. I was to blame too. So I kept playing and I kept thinking. After a while, I called my friend and said I was sorry. He was sorry too.
So I will forever be grateful toward Earthbound for helping me getting thru my teenage years. Thank you Mr Itoi. Earthbound was my cocoon and I am now a butterfly.
