Peace of Mind Through the Discord
At first impression, the assignment may have seen like nothing more than tedious busy-work to make sure “Eye spake duh engrish goodly!”, but after giving it a prudent amount of focus, I realize that I really should give attention to the vast difference in my personal behavior, and that’s what I’m doing. This assignment really drew attention to the fact that I behave much differently online than I do in person. My timid and sheepish conduct in real life is just one side of my personality card. Online, I am far more ACTIVE and explorative, whether I’m just recreationally watching YouTube videos or IMMERSING myself into an EVER-EXPANDING MMORPG or having fun CHATTING and joking around (HAHAHA!) with online GAMERS, trying to chop up our grieves and stressors and BURN IT UP like firewood… mmm, so TOASTY! In this paper, I will shine a little more light into my habitual use of Discord and why I believe exploring it made me a better person, YEAH!
Welcome to Di-what?
Starting out, what is Disco-huh? Discord is a piece of multi-platform software produced for users to create and maintain multi-user online communities within an inconceivably vast scope. I was acquainted with it from an online forum website built for the game Maplestory. I stopped playing it some time ago (at least 6–7 years?) but I still have a soft spot in my warm blood-pumper when it comes to the friends that I made through it… the forum, not the game! Within Discord, a user isn’t restricted to just text and dry jokes. A user is free to post links to websites, videos, images, and more, like memes! For instance, “Ahh… I can has cheezburgah? Yis! (XuX)” Truly, that brand of silly humor really filled me up, and had me hungry for more!
Haha! Okay, enough with the mindlessness. Discord is broken up into groups of users called Servers and a ranked system so that new users can’t just hop on in with Admin privileges and wreak havoc. The only struggle is owed to the user in knowing how to balance the time one spends offline and on Discord.
Setting Priorities
I have to embarrassingly admit that in the past, I was the sort of person who would waste-I mean, make use of games to kill off my stresses, but that… requires a sense of moderation. I have to accept the fact that I am not a youngster with a poor sense of setting priorities. I am a grown man at this point, and I do have to accept that I balance a hefty set of heavy priorities on my nose, such as with my class assignments, and typing this paper is one of them. I’m not axing off my snout just to preserve my gamer pride. No. And I’m not axing my frontal lobe just to “has duh funnn!” Heavens no! If there is one thing in this world that I owe it to myself, it’s to continue to study and practice what I have learned at my alma mater A&T (Aggie Pride!), what I’m learning now at UNCG (Spartans rise!), and offset those stressors with my recreational life talking and chilling with my friends online. I lopped off the weight of a bulky online game, and I can stand up straight mentally now, but now I need to steadily keep. Moving. Forward!
I will finish my undergraduate study one day, and that day is coming sooner and sooner! I’ll keep walking forward!
