Christ Centered Gamer

I'm surprised how much it revealed about myself, including how I dealt with loneliness as a child and adolescent and ultimately how I deal with it as an adult. Almost to a T.
During my play through, I initially headed straight towards the groups. And I did this as a child. But as I grew older and moved, I'd try joining a group of friends but I'd be shunned. Sometimes just tacitly ignored, or sometimes outright told to leave. Just as in the game, I decided I didn't need others and went through the rest of my jr. high and high school life not bothering with other people. I made friends, but I always kept the notion that generally others were not interested in me, so I wasn't interested in them. This never really left me, and perhaps never will.
I passed through the dots, maybe occasionally joining, but eventually passing forward undeterred.

Until I saw the single dot. And just with my loneliness, I sought to fill that gap with that of a girl. And when that dot faded, I can't lie and say there wasn't a sinking inside. It seemed to fade all the slower. And the second one as well. I remembered that feeling all too well. It hasn't left me still, even as I'm writing this post.

I think it shows a lot of how I am with loneliness. At first, I try my hardest to fit in, then I give up because it fails. I may try again at random, but it's mostly just that: Random.

I kept trying for every group, sometimes bypassing one as I sped toward another, but never totally giving up because I thought that somewhere along the line one of the groups would stay put.

So at first I thought the groups were trees so I just keep going forward.
Then they were in groups that didn't look like trees, so I tried to avoid them thinking that I would get a game over or something.
Then when it was somewhat unavoidable, I went into a group and they ran. (That's when I noticed all the dots where people.)
So I tried going into a few other groups though of course they ran,
it was then I decided to walk alone for the rest of the game. (Those groups seem better off with me anyways.)
I wanted to walk to the other people that were alone, but I knew what would take place, so I just keep going.

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I don't think I have any desire to bring back those thoughts...

At first, I went towards the dots because it seemed the thing to do, even though I was afraid contact with them would kill my little dot, so I avoided the first few. Then I tried to catch a few, and after awhile realized what would happen, since I finally understood the name of the game. Still, I kept hoping that one or two of the dots would stop and hang with my little dot. I realized they wouldn't, but kept trying until the end.

I occasionally stopped for extended periods wondering what to do and went back a little before deciding to go forward again as it seemed like the only option

I went for every group, even the ones that were far behind me and out of reach. I don't know if that says anything about how I act in society as much as I thought it was the goal of the game. I do, however, completely identify with Arch concerning the single dots at the end. Such a freaky sinking feeling. I guess you could take it to mean that I'm desperate for everyone's acceptance, which I am, but I'd like to think I'm good about getting over rejection. I've always been pretty persistent about being around people, even if they reject me every time, and it definitely hurts when it doesn't work out... but nothing hurts more than missing out on that one single, special dot.

Didn't feel much til the single dots near the end. Made me sad and after a while made me angry.

I think I missed the entire point. I tried to touch all of the dots with my dot and I felt I did awesome. I didn't feel lonely, more so accomplished. Is that strange?