Have you ever had surgery? What for?
My thumbs. Both of them. Before I was even 4 years old. Without the surgery, I would’ve never been able to properly hold a pencil, pen, book, game controllers, let alone a guitar.
I’m grateful for my parents to seeing this surgery happen, as well as the doctors that did it.
It’s 100% something in my life that I don’t take for granted. I’m able to do everything I can today because of that surgery.
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life.
This one is easy! Video games. Picture this — you’ve had a long day at work, you’ve taken time to bond with your kid and your cat. You’ve had your social battery drained significantly by dealing with folks on and off through your shift and you need to unplug from the world.
That’s the magic of a video game. You get to disconnect, even for a few hours, from the rest of the world and de-stress your body. If you’ve been standing all day? You get to sit. If you’re runnin’ and gunnin’, now you’re sitting still. If you’re in a constant state of forcing a straight back with your chest out? You can finally relax a bit.
There are worlds that you never experience that a game can immerse you into. There’s things you’ll see that reality can never provide and all of this…without drugs. Whether it’s the Mushroom Kingdom in Super Mario Bros., The Land of Shadow in Elden Ring or the upside down version of Dracula’s Castle in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, you’re taken for a ride as far detached from reality as you can.
Once that ride ends, I experience a sense of relief where, after I get sleep, I wake up and have a refilled mental battery to start a new day.
What does freedom mean to you?
It means to be able to do what I desire while also being conscious of the consequences of every action I take.
