What Life Is Strange Means To Me & How It Saved My Life
I know I made a post like this before, but that was almost 2 years ago. So… here we go again.
I found Life is Strange when I was 16, right when episode 3 dropped. I remember the night I came across Jacksepticeye’s playthrough, I was sad, depressed and had no future. I was failing school and considering dropping out altogether. I’d just moved to a new town and knew no one, I’d left my friends and knew that nothing was going to be the same between us. My life was horrible and I started to wonder why I even existed if all I was going to do was suffer. But this game… gave me a spark of hope. I told myself, “I might as well stick around and see how this plays out” and I did, I kept myself together up until episode 5.
Then, after that, I found myself writing about the ending I wanted, giving these characters I’d fallen in love with a second chance at the life they deserved. For the next year… that’s all I did, focused on my writing and the game it was based on. “Well, now I have to stick around and finish this thing. People are counting on me”. That was what kept me going through that. And then, when my story was over, I thought that was it, I thought that my time in this fandom was up and I’d move on to bigger and better things. But… I kept writing and writing and writing until.
A second game was announced.
I was ecstatic, even if the game was inherently about a game and ship I didn’t like. It was more content, backstories for my characters. So, I started to write, even more, changing things, making them fit into canon. More and more people started to enjoy my work, so the more and more I put out. I came up with my second story, and then my third and fourth. This game, this game that people say I’m obsessed with… it saved my life.
Life is Strange is my life, and at times, it’s the reason I live. I’ve wanted to die so many time during these past 3 years and the only thing that has truly kept me her is this god-damn game that has taken over and consumed my life. I’m not ashamed to say that I live for a game, not at all. Because no matter how small or petty the reason you stay alive is… It’s YOUR reason, and it keeps YOU alive. And you know, to me… that’s all that really matters.
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