A lot on my mind

I've been quite busy dealing with some personal issues and I have had little time with the game. And the time I did have with the game just wasn't pleasing me as much as it used to. And it got me thinking. Why do I still play this game? I think I have past the 3 year mark of playing this game and I admit I feel the repetition from time to time. Like...oh, I did this already. Or, been there, done that kind of feeling. I mean, 3 years of FFXI is almost $400! Thats a lot of *clink clink*. But yeah...I've kind of hit a slump in real life so I just wasn't feeling the mood. But that is the reason why I questioned playing FFXI.

As I layed there, contemplating, I started remember all the funny adventures. Like when I trained a lot of Boyahda Tree and nearly killed the skill up group. Or the time where I asked for help for one of my thief AFs and my whooooole LS showed up just to kick a gobby NMs butt (which like 2 of us could of killed). Or when I camped Leaping Lizzy with my first thief mentor Tendrak. He stuck with me the whole time and finally got me a shiny pair of boots just like his!Or when I first started the game and a friendly tarutaru gave me a fishing rod, bait, and a linkshell and welcomed me to the world of Vana'Diel.

And that was just the start of it! My memories started flooding back to me. All the amazing BCNM fights that had me on my seat until we amazingly pulled off the win. All the fights against NMs, hoping that the darn mob would finally drop the item that someone needed. All those fun times just doing something silly with me friends.

I remember one time I went exploring with my good friend Kihre. We were exploring Attohwa Chasm and we ran into a few antlions that popped out of the ground and aggro'ed. I finally noticed that you could see a lil piece of them when they were hiding. Me and Kihre had just fended off a mob and we were a lil low on HP. I saw a Antlion hiding so I told Kihre to lead the way. It popped out and pretty much tore into the two of us. I barely lived with my two hour but Kihre died. Heeee was sooo mad! XD. But the most amazing part was when I msg'ed a random whm in Jeuno that I didn't even know and asked for a raise. And the whm actually came out and raised! Then, to top that off, me and Kihre, through trial and error, finally made it to the top of the mountain thingy. Right when we got up there, the sun was actually rising. I've seen the sun rise in the game, but that one sun rise was literally breathtaking. A definite sit back in your chair and say wow moment. It was probrably one of the greatest experiences ever. We didn't do it for an item. We didn't do it to unlock anything. We didn't get anything out of it. We just had fun.

Thats when it hit me! Duh! I play to have fun! Why else would I keep coming back to play. So after thinking of all the great times I had, I'm back out of my slump! So watch out world, here comes Miry!