Distractions - They Suck

Hey guys and gals,

Kondor here again. After a while, unfortunately. I apologize for not having been writing - I've been busy. Busy with school, busy with friends, busy with distractions.

Merriam-Webster defines a distraction as "something that makes it difficult to think or pay attention." To think or pay attention? Well, I sure as hell think - I don't have the luxury NOT to think - so that's not it. But to pay attention? That, my friends, is something that is a problem.

My time flying through New Eden these past few weeks has been very limited - really, the most I've been able to manage is to hop on for a few minutes every few days to update my skill que. Thankfully, I'm smart enough to realize that I should probably skill into things that probably don't require loads of personal time each day. Freighters and Planetary Interaction - my low-maintenance and time-effective solutions. But why is my time limited? Well, distractions.

First off, in real life (and then we'll get back to games), I'm a college student. I'm working on a major in Biomedical Sciences, which is pretty much a lot of chemistry and science. I don't have a problem with science, but I'm not a big fan of chemistry. But I do what I need to to get to where I want to go. The thing is that it's so time consuming that I haven't even had much of a chance to go out and hang out with friends, play some sports, etc. And that sucks. I've spent many of my nights at a tutoring establishment, which thankfully helps. But all of this means less time for EVE.

In the gaming world, I'm also an active DUST mercenary. Now, my personal beliefs about the game aside (maybe I'll write about those sometime - they might be entertaining), I play DUST with a group of guys that are really enjoyable to play with. But even in games there's drama, apparently. Sparing you the long explanation and all of the stupid little details, we had one leader decide he didn't like the other leader all of a sudden, and it spiraled down from there. Our core group of guys are still with us, which is a good thing. But this drama took up way too much of my time, since I decided to get involved. Entertaining as that was (and by that, I mean that arguing with some certain people and making their points moot was very entertaining) it took up an unnecessary amount of my time. Which means, yet again, distractions suck.

I was invited into the world of EVE by someone who has since become a good friend of mine. There are only a few people that I would love to meet in life from the gaming world - he's one of them. But due to everything that's been going on in the past few weeks, I've only been able to talk with him once or twice. That sucks. What sucks even more is that he is having the same problem that I am - an overabundance of distractions keeping him from living his EVE life. And our time of playing games (video games, for those of you who need clarification) with each other has decreased immensely.

But whatever. They're just distractions, right? They'll go away. I sure hope so. Because non-stop school is getting old. I'm done with stupid game drama. And I want to get back to the game that I enjoy playing - the one that doesn't tell me what to do. I want to get back out into space and fly. I have a life to make for my character there that has been put on hold - I don't plan on that being a set-in-stone thing. I'll fight my way through the unnecessary distractions, deal with the necessary ones, and find my way back to space.

I've got things to do there.

Thanks for reading, and fly safe.

Kondor

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