I Get By With a Little Help From My Games

This has been a very long and quite trying few days for me and I am just glad that it’s all finally over. Gaming has always been my main passion, but I do have another passion, which is for food. As I was getting my chow on one evening, I noticed that the left side of my mouth was really sensitive so I found it very hard to chew.  As annoying as this was, I managed to eat and thought it was just a freak pain that would disappear overnight. Oh was I wrong! The pain only got worse, causing me to have not only a major headache but to top it all off my face had begun to swell.  Now this might not sound like much, but in a few days I was meant to be meeting my partner’s dad for the first time ever and it was my birthday.

I had such plans to look nice to meet my partner’s dad and I wanted to go out and shake my tail feather for my birthday. But I just couldn’t see this happening with me looking like I was hiding a years worth of food stuffed in my left cheek. Now my boyfriend did console me and told me that it will go down eventually, but I was so upset I just kept thinking that I’m going to look like the elephant man’s sister forever and ever.

After feeling very sorry for myself, I decided to take my mind off things by choosing a kick ass game to play. While I rummaged through to see what game took my fancy, I wondered what the protagonists in the incredible games that I play would do in my position. I know that my plight doesn’t exactly come close to the issues of filling up the black hole like the Prince from Beautiful Katamari had. Or I wasn’t trying to beat the black list and get my awesome whip back from that weirdo, like in Need for Speed Most Wanted or trying to save the Mushroom Kingdom, like Mario and Luigi do in their many adventures. But to me, getting my swelling was my plight, my beating Ridley so to speak. (He’s the mean dragon dude from the Metroid series, just in case you were wondering).

So what did my gaming heroes teach me in the end? Besides that they are all facing issues that I cannot realistically face myself because they don’t exist and if they did, I would run for the hills because I am a massive wimp of course. I learned that although I wanted to run away and hide my disfigured face from the world, that I should find the courage and not allow this unfortunate illness to stop me from having fun or from eating like a horse. But the most important thing to remember is that in a few days, my antibiotics will kick in and I’ll be back to my old self again.