- Camping trips singing in the car, being there through all their childhood illnesses and hurts;
emotional and physical ones, first
days of school,
last days of school, dinners that flopped (I am remembering the failed salmon loaf recipe), pants that were too short, too long, too old, too loose, too tight or too great to take off to wash, friends and then girlfriends / boyfriends, soccer and scouts and blue hair dye and laughter and tears and all the things that make up a life LM
Quick Hits: The Times» David Gonzalez, himself a graduate
of St. Martin
of Tours
School in Crotona, offers this poignant piece on the school's closing and emotional last day of classes, which was last Wedn
School in Crotona, offers this poignant piece on the
school's closing and emotional last day of classes, which was last Wedn
school's closing and
emotional last day of classes, which was
last Wednesday.
Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years
of my life, gaming served as a diverse means
of escape for me away from the trappings
of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end
of the
school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some
of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one
of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after
school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had
last left off the
day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many
of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects
of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark
of an impactful form
of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events
of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort
of impact that the
emotional depth
of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world
of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury
of divorcing ourselves
of our current reality to assume that
of a world
of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another
day