There is absolutely no denying that gaming is a huge part of my life as it likely is for anyone reading this. I just wanted reflect on why and what gaming has brought me in life for a few minutes.

As I think back, my first memories of video games are back when my age was still in the single digits. My neighbors had just bought an N64 and there were a ton of at the time mind-blowing games like goldeneye and super smash bros. To be honest, I wasn’t very good at the games at the time, but what I do remember is all of good times I had laughing and competing with one another. Video gaming brought us closer together and I remember other kids from the neighborhood hanging out with us that had never done that before, it opened up our friendship circle. Quite simply gaming helped…