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I used to feel ashamed of the time I spent in Maplestory
 Wednesday, September 5th 2018, 5:41 AM;  140;  0;  +0 | 0 | -0
Maplestory didn’t feel the same, after that. A few weeks later, I woke up one day and realized I didn’t want to play it anymore. I felt sick of it. I had just turned 16 and was about to enter my second year of high school. I had begun to make more and more friends offline. The more time I spent away from Maplestory, the less I missed it. I was too busy stressing about my future, my college prospects, and keeping up with my grades to even think about logging onto Maplestory.
I used to feel ashamed of the time I spent in Maplestory, but looking back, I realize that it meant a lot to me as a kid. I’m no longer in touch with any of the friends I made all those years ago, but the time that I spent with them was just as valuable as the other friendships that I made over the course of my life. All of my experiences, both positive and negative, taught me about myself and about the world. I got to have the same emotional closeness and crushing betrayals that other middle schoolers had in their own social cliques, but instead of a school cafeteria, the backdrop was the Maplestory Marketplace. My childhood was different, since so much of my early socialization happened online, but my experiences are just as valuable as the experiences of others. It was far from a gap in my life. Rather, it was a fundamental part of cultivating the person I am today www.lolga.com
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