So last Saturday I finally preorded destiny, I am 18 years old still dont have my licenses and I'm glad destiny gets to be my first preordered game. Usually when a game came out I was lucky enough to buy it off the shelf during launch week. Though this game is different I wanted to help break sales for destiny on launch. However thats not the only reason why I am buying it, I bought it cuz its gonna be the first time in 3 years sense I got a new game, xbl live as well. Last game I bought was Batman Arkham City and I got mw3 as a gift. Reason its been so long sense I got a game is because of Halo reach. That game took over my life, I played it everyday until blops came out, play that for a month, went back to reach. I Played that game 2 years straight with occasional play of blops, but I would feel bad for my best friend who only had Reach so me and him literally played together all the time. He eventually gets Blops but we played that for like 2 months, and we went back to reach. Reach was all I thought about I barely remember what happened during freshman, partially sophomore year of high school. I don't know how I even passed those grades. Though I did have to do summer school Algebra. Aside from school I also became distant from my family and friends, except the 2 friends I played with. I eventually realized that I was addicted. So my solution was to not renew my xbl and wait for halo 4 to come out and keep up my grades, focus on school. This did help but it was tough even with no xbl my heart was aching to play a game, it was beating so loud it was all I could hear. What was worse is that my eyes were constantly dilated, which usually happened when I played too much. This feeling I had when I tried to stop on the first day it made me realize exactly how badly I was addicted. It was a struggle which lasted a FULL YEAR. So when halo 4 approached something personal was happening and I realized I cant waist $ on a game or xbl. Year after that my views were still the same. In 8th grade I was the smart kid, I was the guy you wanted to copy off of on the test, in that year I did have an xbox, and I had a plan to make sure I wouldn't become addicted which was to not play at all for 1 week every month. What ruined that plan most likely the weekly challenges. So now I am a freshman in a community college being 18 years old I am gonna trust myself not to let that happen again and I advise those reading this to do the same. A game is temporary moment of happiness and life is short you don't know when you will die whether or not you'll live to see launch day or the servers shutting down. So cherish life try your best to stay focused on school, be kind/patient with your parents and finally last thing I would like to say is... push back the darkness guardian and see yall starside.