Insane how fast a few decades went.

It feels like just yesterday I was digging through the bargain bin of DS games in GameStop with my mom.

I always did try and butter her up for more.

If you had told me I would not own a single one by now, I would have called you insane.

But times had changed and so had I.

I am no longer the little girl brushing the dust from returned games.

My value lays elsewhere now.

Not that those moments were never real.

Those quiet moments hunched over a console was my world when I felt like I had none.

It saved me.

Before I knew it, my life had progressed two decades onwards.

I had incubated in someone else’s world long enough to want my own.

Deluded into a beautiful sense of control I try to never lose.

Maybe this time will be different than before.

Maybe this time I will be alright.

Wilder things have happened.

I am just glad to have opened my eyes before the end.