The girl, the gold, and the digger
Nothing spoils a game like a loyal girlfriend does. Now I see why they don’t play: because they are COMPETING with the games… for my attention.
I dunno when she developed this habit. A week ago, she had her head up my shoulder while I was deep immersed in hunting the map. Right when I was about to nail a dude, she said ironic curiosity “Is this that ogre bitch again?”
“What ogre bitch, bitch?” She can’t handle an ogre, how she gonna put up with my future mistresses?
That totally knocked me outta my trance. You don’t just say shit to a possessed person like you do to your bed partner.
As a matter of fact, it goes further than my attention. She’s competing for my commitment.
That’s a problem and I’m gonna tell you why, by stealing this articulation from Neil Strauss. I don’t have a problem with commitment, I have problem with giving up the free-wheeling, the swingings, basically all the crazy shit that I’ve missed out doing on my teenage years. Life is a series of pain. Choose one thing, you miss out another. So I’ve made a call, and I chose fun and games.
That same night I disarmed her (after disarming the ‘ogre bitch’) by going down on her. I coulda gain a coupla levels and regain the respect of my guild mates. But if drilling is the price for keeping the bitch quiet (well… not that quiet), so be it.
She ain’t gonna stop here. Chinese saying goes: “A problem that’s solvable with money is not a problem.” This, is not one of them.
Interestingly, a flash of thought came to my mind while drilling her. It turns out gold digging is a lot like commitment. You choose commitment, and you let go of free-wheeling. You wanna go legit and dig more gold, and you let go of the fun the game too.
Digging gold to level myself up is in fact a commitment to mundance existence. That’s not what I play for. I play for the thrill, to learn new stuffs, to see new things. If it’s a gold digging job, I better paid for doing it.
As much as we hate to admit it, life is much more interesting when you live rich. It’s not the filth of money, it’s the opportunity it can buy to live up to your potential.
Now that sounds like a problem I can solve with money.