#playing things

Since I'm having trouble sleeping I've decided to write this about me post or, to be more precise, this post about my page's name, A girl playing things.

There's two things you must know first:

First thing: aside from Pokemon, The Sims and Age of Empires I started playing videogames just a few years ago;

Second thing: I suffer from severe anxiety.

How are these two things related? Well, trust me, they are, everything in my life is related to my anxiety!

So, the origin of the name dates back to the happy time when one of my friends saw me playing GTA. That time in particular, I stopped in front of the red light while driving and waited for the green one to go on. That's me. I really did it - ehrm, used to do it. It happened several times, actually.

And then he saw me playing Far Cry and it was even more disastrous because I can't understand the first person game play, like... I really can't, I can't see things! Well, in Far Cry I could barely go on a few meters without dying.

That's when that friend told me that I "played things" (in my mother tongue the words are slightly different and they are funnily put together) and that we could make a channel were I made the most lame and anxious and disastrous pts of games ever - alas, we never did it.

Then, the time when I owned my console came: and I've played Skyrim, but after a while I had to stop because it made me anxious; I played Fall out and I had to stop soon enough because it made me anxious (and I also spent all my money in the first city so I couldn't go on any more and I was too anxious to reload a previous save); I played the Witcher and I decided at a certain point that it made me anxious too; and so on and so forth...

Until I found two games that I rock: Dragon Age and Mass Effect.

I discovered that though gloomy, their stories made me anxious only to keep on playing. And their well written characters made my most anxious days defenitely better.

So, the point is... I play things and I love story driven rpgs.