Zerk

We're pretty far away.

So this world has become like this symbolic dating spot.

You know, we go on dates.

When we go mining, it's a date.

When we build our house, it's a date.

And that's like a house that we can actually own right now.

So hey, I'm for it, you know?

It's not $400,000.

It's like 20,000 cobblestone.

I'll take it.

But in this time, I've had some...

older tendencies resurface.

I used to distract myself from loneliness, from isolation, from feeling like I wasn't liked by my friends, whatever, feeling like I was worthless by playing

copious amounts of Minecraft, a lot of Minecraft.

I used to build buildings, skyscrapers.

I wanted to build the Burj Khalifa in Minecraft at one point.

And so I was studying to do that by building different skyscrapers and you'd go on these servers where they had creative plots and you could get plots of land and build on these plots of land, cities and stuff.

And for me, it became this escape.

And in a similar sense,

I've had to make the distinction in Minecraft when I am playing to spend time with my girlfriend and when I am playing to distract myself from my lack of self-care.