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1 day, I logged in Maplestory M Mesos to find that all
 Thursday, August 22nd 2019, 11:06 AM;  102;  0;  +0 | 0 | -0
1 day, I logged in Maplestory M Mesos to find that all of my accounts was totally wiped--no money, weapons, or clothes. Right away, I guessed my previous friend, who had popped up from the blue a few weeks before to request help hacking somebody else (I had refused). I also realized, in shame, she still knew my password from back when we were buddies. I had not even thought to change it. It'd never occured to me she would do something so cruel.
I felt unhappy. Not only had I lost my very best buddy, I had lost everything else I'd worked so hard to earn in this game. My other Maplestory friends offered to help me get back at her boyfriend (who I also suspected as a co-conspirator). I denied. I didn't see the purpose. It would not give me back my things or my friend.
Maplestory didn't feel exactly the same, after that. I realized I didn't wish to play it anymore and woke up one day. I felt sick. I had just turned 16 and was going to put in my second year of high school. I'd started to create more and more friends offline. I was too busy keeping up to think about logging on Maplestory, and stressing about my future, my school prospects.
I used to feel ashamed of the time I spent Maplestory, but I realize that it meant a great deal as a child to me. I am no longer in touch with any of the friends I left all those years ago, but the period that I spent together was just as valuable as the friendships that I made over the course of my entire life. All my thoughts, both negative and positive, educated me about myself and about the world.
I got to have betrayals that are devastating and the emotional closeness that middle schoolers had in their social cliques, but instead of a college cafeteria, the background was that the Maplestory Marketplace. My experiences are as valuable as the experiences of others, although my childhood was different, since so much of my socialization happened on the internet. It was far from a gap. Rather, it was a part of cultivating the individual I am now.
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