LARPING IS NOT WHEN SOMEONE DOESNT KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT A VIDEO GAME AS YOU. ITS WHEN THEY PRETEND THEYRE FANS WITHOUT ENGAGING WITH THE IP OUTSIDE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
People want to go out in the streets and celebrate their teams. People want to see movies in theaters. People love their Muslim mayors and Jewish bagels. The future is bright.
Glorification? There was zero glory in my addiction. It was truly the most excruciatingly humiliating and degrading experience you could possibly imagine. I wanted to commit suicide almost daliy, but didn’t have the courage for even that. Instead I’d reach for the pipe or the bottle. The cowards way out. The guilt. The shame. The hurt. The absolute misery of it. Yet here I am. And I am not alone. There are millions upon millions of us. We don’t all agree on politics or people or who we root for on Sunday. But we all have the shared experience of walking through that fire and surviving. I chose to live. That’s not a joke.