Why Guitar Hero Saved My Life

I will admit that the title of today's post is a bit... dramatic... but the overtones of what it embodies isn't all that far off.

In the spirit of starting my B3.0 Initiative, I thought I would reflect on a few major interesting points from my recent past.

Two major anchors in my life have always been at the forefront of my interests: girls and video games. More than the other, girls have, of course, been my primary focus. This attention was traditionally showered on or in the direction of Lacey.

When things didn't go so well between us, I would typically turn to my other major interest, video games, to fill the gaps in my life and to get my mind off her and related troubles. When we finally split for good a few months ago, I was immediately worried about my mental health.

Generally, with school such a large part of my life, I've found video games to be somewhat of a time-killer that hurts more than helps me. However, Guitar Hero entered my life just before this past Christmas, and I found it to be so insanely addictive, so intriguing, and so awesome that it, for the first time since Ocarina of Time in 1998, became a video game that completely made me remember why video games are so awesome in the first place.

So during a time when I would have normally been grieving, bitching, and moping about from day to day, I have instead been shredding away, becoming the Guitar Hero master that I never really pictured me becoming. But I am good. And I hope to get better. I have a lot of growing room, I'm sure.

Further proff that [ music + video games = heaven ].

Out.