Rolling a New Character

The average night down my local pub with my good friend Mark: say hello, order beer, discuss the weeks events, complain about our other friend not coming out for a drink, text rude things to other friend as punishment, go home, play World of Warcraft (WoW).

However one month ago, as I sat down to play WoW and the shape of my belly pushed itself out against my t-shirt like a hostage trying to tell everyone they're in the boot of the car, my mind turned to how unfit I am, how uncool I am, and how untalented I remain. I sit here playing my WoW character and tootling about Azeroth, endlessly grinding to obtain entirely immaterial things whilst my guitar gathers dust beside me and my clothes increasingly look like a group of scientists that have travelled forward in time from the past. I go to my dead end job all day and come back stressed before going back into work even more stressed. I knew that despite all of my friends and my lovely girlfriend, I wasn't happy. 


"Enough is enough!" said my tiny naive Mind, "We can do something about this! We just need the right attitude!" 


And so I adopted the right attitude, and I exercised and I socialised. And for a while it worked. But then I got bored of it and began to fantasise about high end WoW raids and all the fancy gear that would bring, which led to planning Warcraft sessions around my exercise routine, which led to skipped workouts, which led to failure and the resignation that I may as well just level an alternative me in a fantasy universe. Mind had failed me.


"Cease!" shouted my unwaveringly optimistic Brain, "It's not too late, and I have the solution!"


'Good old Brain', I thought, before following it's instructions to give myself experience points for tasks completed. 


Here is Brains idea: I will treat my life like it's a role playing game, tracking my experience levels and gradually creating a fictional me by improving the real me in a variety of ways. I'll work out a system for this in the next few days and post it up here along with my goals. Hopefully I can keep feeling the push to improve myself as it will be improving another me in much more impressive and heroic ways. 


Epic journals to follow.