Personal Essay
There’s a faint glow in a dim room. Upon entering, gazing up
at the enormous desk set in front of me. I see a bearded man click clacking
away on a strange, alien object. As the kindly fatherly figure lifted me to see
the view that was a whole different world. I’ve never seen anything like it
before. The humming of the device lured my young eyes to the screen to behold
what would be an addiction that would carry on throughout my life. The same
feeling is there. Just different variations of electronic buzz. I share this
addiction with my dad, mom, little brother, and have made amazing memories with
them.
To this very day I continue to indulge that same feeling I felt since I was 5 years of age. My love of this mystical contraption of digital working parts, lit the way for me to communicate with almost anyone I wanted. I’ve spoken with people in Florida, Michigan, California, Vegas, and possibly more that I’ve mostly likely forgot about. In times of sadness, the spectral portal that is the screen showed me something. It opened a gateway to a whole community of people that create visual entertainment in attempt to make others laugh. Out of all the comedic figures in that community, one stood out to me the most. A person that has gone through his own troubles in his life. With a strong passion to entertain and connect with the people that he dedicates his bombastic personality to. I’m currently speaking about the man with the pink warfstashe and the blocked M on his black t-shirt, in his chest beating a heart of gold. The man that calls himself Markiplier. This Cheerful head phoned clad hero had put a smile on my face when others couldn’t. His love of the addiction that is video games drew an instant connection between him, other people, and me. Of course this would have only been possible with the awesome power of this amazing collaboration of digital awesomeness. The gigantic power of this brilliant machine had given me a torch to hold on to in my darkest times and I’m so grateful for it. This fantastic system of numbers has done for me more than anyone could imagine. Flashing back to some of my younger years in my schooling, I struggled with a few classes. For the longest time I pondered on how I could up my academic game. Eventually I turned to see if the answers I seek were on the digital globe. Going through middle school, I was improving every day with all the additional knowledge of an open source. My heap of random numbers that were my grades went up as the year went on with all the knowledge I’ve gathered from the archives of digital information. As of today I continue use this masterful creation of symbols to aid me and still seeing improvement in my life. Never in my life would I even think thoughts of kicking this addiction. I’m going to go binge watch some videos now, later! |