I've learned that no matter how I want, I can't really do anything big, at least not by myself. I have also improved my English skills...I hope. I've met some friends and some not-so-friends, while learning and finally accepting that people sometimes have different opinion about something and it may be a good one. To put it simple, I guess I'm somewhat more tolerant. Also Disco taught me to avoid PvP in any MMO or other RPG games.
Well, at my age pretty much most of who I am had settled in before I came to this server. But I was effected by the community nonetheless. I believe it's the sheer diversity of people I've gotten to know over the past couple years here on Disco. I am Canadian and seeing multicultural diversity is not new to me but for the most part that is just me walking down the street or going to the store. Interaction is minimal and fastidious as I go about my errands. Here on Disco interactions are more personal, longer lasting and in many cases on a regular basis. This influx of encounters from a variety of people from such diverse backgrounds has vastly increased my social development on an almost worldly scale and it has resulted in a much more open mind that is still filling in with so much information from around the world. All this by simply paying attention.
' Wrote:[color=#33CCFF]I've learned that no matter how I want, I can't really do anything big, at least not by myself.
"Always reach for the stars, you may not touch them but you'll get a good stretch from it and if you are lucky, a low hanging apple as well."
Though I've matured during my stay at Disco, I don't attribute it to the server. I have been changed by playing here, certainly. Before, it was easy for someone to walk all over me. I'd bend over backwards for anyone. As time went on, I realized that being overly nice simply enabled others to do that to me. After working on it, I've become better at saying no, and even being not-so-nice, should a situation call for it. Something that I used to be incapable of.
Discovery allowed me to meet some really great people and it changed my personality a bit (for the better, of course). I'd have to say it's done some stuff to me that's built my life up quite a bit, and I'm truly glad to have been part of this community for the past almost year now.
Hmph.. I guess I did, everything was affecting me in those ages and it affects me still now, but not much as it used to.
I know English lot better, I do type a lot better and I read more stories here than in school.
I met more people then I wanted to meet and that's good, they all contributed somehow and thought me something.. how to behave, how to write, how to stay calm.. too bad I never passed most of that knowledge to someone else.
And I am not talking about Freelancer and as in game experience much.. these things were done on Skype, Forum.. FL just connected us all in something great, community, a very helpful one and I am glad I joined.
This reminded me to thank a friend that borrowed memory stick with FL with disco mod on it once long time ago. Too bad most of my RL friends stopped playing long time ago too.. and too bad they never cared about RP part of the game.
I must say whole idea of RP in game was funny to me at the beginning but now I like it, I would like to see more games like this one but chance for game with community as this was is slim, it happens once in 100 years.:)
Because this was my first internet game, it grabbed me deeply, and I pretty much dropped out of the school I was at because I was staying up too late plying and not going to class.
Because of that I had to learn some self-control.
I also really enjoy meeting people from around the world. I get to say I have friends on every continent (sans Antarctica) and get to hear all those differing opinions, which helps me to be more well-rounded and see the world through different eyes.
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