So how was your weekend???

Did I clean the house----NO.

Did I fix my office----NO

Did I start writing the great American novel---NO

So what did I do this weekend…Well…I played WOW!!!

I was finally able to get on with Bel for more than an hour in a couple of weeks. Luis has been holding our main account hostage for days now, and I was finally able to pay the ransom. Well, really real world called and forced his butt in the chair to finish his homework. I was able to level to 31 last night which is really nice. Now if only I could do Gnome…that would really make my log a lot lighter.

Oh the sad state of my world…to be concerned with the status of a fictional, virtual woman logged into a digital world. It is a pathetic.

Yet, even as pathetic as I see it to be, I can now say I understand the attraction to games like WoW.

I once thought comments about Everquest to be an exaggeration. One time I heard it said you only gave the game to someone you never wanted to see again. This meaning of course, as soon as the person started to play they would never leave. The fixation of an alternate world and our ability of create alternate, powerful egos within them is intoxicating. There is an element of addiction within this game. It is the same attraction which can be attributed to to any fan of a specific TV show, movie, book, etc. Think about it…if you in ‘real’ life are tall, skinny, slob with a face full of acne and buck teeth…in WoW you can be a handsome nightelf with bugling muscles. If the ‘real’ world you are a fat, middle aged, single male with no respect from anyone, but in WoW you have one of the highest ranking Paladin’s with an epic mount, then it wouldn't matter.

Why? Beacause in WoW you are respected.

In WoW, you exist.

I think that is the root of the matter. The feeling of existence and life. Evidence you are real, moving and changing part of the bigger picture.

Even if that picture is made up of pixels.