One and Other: You and I (AKA: Rethinking on WOW)

People bond; they form relationships.

Relationships vary in purpose, duration, worth, and its impact on the assoicated individuals.


When first introduced, we make evaluation, estimation, and assumption of the strangers base on our 1st impressions and act upon them. As we are engaged in the same actitives, connections between us and others arise naturally.

The purpose of developing a relationship becomes an essential determinator of the effort later spent in bonding. Generally speaking, more the reasons, more valuable each other's companies become.
And, the duration of a relationship much depends on both of the individuals' maintance effort.
A relationship's worth is calculated base on the psychological rewards and(or) materialistical benfits received by one. Note that the worth of a relationship is also another important predictor of the amount of effort would be invested in bonding. And therefore, has a great impact on the relationship's duration.

All relationships have impacts on us at some degree psychological;y, socialogically, materialistically, econmically, and etc. Great or Small, the impact on us is closely correlated to how much effort is poured out from us.


Anyways, this is the point of this post:

"Glassy, it is difficult to have WOW and a relationship at the same time. If you need to quit for some other things, it will be a good thing if u stop playing because it does take up a lot of your life. Keep it a game. Do not bring in real life personal stories and issues in the game for yourself and also for the other people." - a Mystery South African.
(I do not know have I misunderstood him, but it doesnt matter. He made me rethink about wow.)



Most people on this online game cannot be treated as "Real Beings". To most, other "characters" are just part of the "fictional world", part of the game. Sometimes, it is even necessary to be treated and used or to see the others as "tools" in order to make some acheivment, i.e. kill the fucking BWL bosses. There is no time, no room, no need for any outside-of-game conversations; there is no need! As WOW consumes most of our days, our basic psychological rewards, social needs are granted as the game goes on... as part of the game. Many of us started playing this game for fun, but as time goes on, we begin to rely this game for all those mentioned needs, rewards, and even self-actualization at the polar!

Our Lives becomes part of the game as we revolve our real life schedule around this game...



Time wasted on chasing after some short-term reward might as well be spent on bonding with more potential people in REAL life, chase after some far more promising reward.

My Promising Career, Relationships, and much more.








-I am an almost level 21 Human Female Cal Psychology Student called Sharon,
not a level 60 Undead Female Frost-spect Mage named Glassy.