Have you changed?

[Warlord]

I've started playing Freelancer online for the wrong reasons at first, about six years or more ago.
Being in that world made me forget all about my reality, I got addicted to that escape. Everybody has it's own way to escape their reality, some drink, some use drugs and I, I used Freelancer.

I've learned a ton of things when playing not just on Discovery but also on those other servers. I've even made friends via this game, even though that sounds wrong. Some live to far away to actually meet, but there's one who I actually see in real life even though we don't play Freelancer together (as we're both in separate sections of Sirius, and we both don't play that much anymore)

Freelancer helped me improve my English skills for sure, even this very same day when talking to British, American, Australian and even to people from New Zealand are amazed about my English. On highschool I was capable to speak better then my teacher.

All that is so long ago now..

Freelancer and Discovery itself didn't learned me anything. It was the trigger.
After I got rid of my addiction to the escape I was capable to grow personally. Who I am right now is not thanks to Freelancer nor to Discovery as odd as that might sound, but like I said it is the cause why I started evolving. It's one of the factors in my life that helped me change into somebody better, I'm not there yet but at least I don't need a addiction now, I don't need to escape reality.

Freelancer is the causes I'm now facing my reality.

And man do I feel like a first class nerd now!

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