"My life for Aiur" - this is what a Zealot says when it comes out of the warp gate. Zealot is a unit in Starcraft and along with starcraft it has made its appearance in my dreams as well when my starcraft addiction was at its peak in 1998 or 99.Anyways, these days my life is for Aiur as my starcraft addiction is growing again and why shouldnt it grow when i spend two nights every weekend playing this game with my old gikian fellows and have started winning few of the games. .
I have been a loser in the game for a long time. Failing to understand the basic concepts, i make mistakes that usually provoke my allies. Long time ago, while in Giki, while on bnet (the server on which starcraft is played) I made a mistake - ( to be more specific , i had a dozen dragoons but i couldnt make them cross a river bridge when my ally needed them badly to protect his base ). My ally got pissed . He sent me a few angry words & left the game. On that day , like a priest who takes the vow of celibacy , i took a vow that i will never play starcraft on bnet again. This was a stupid vow . As then i started playing against computer only and a computer AI is extremely predictable .You can neither have fun nor learning by playing with it.
On May 19, Blizzard announced that starcraft II is in production and so i finally decided to listen to bodi's constant calls to join bnet . Thus I shifted from playing-warcraft-daily to playing-starcraft-daily , got DSL at home and came back on the bnet server again.
Last weekend i followed a good routine of staying awake all night for the love of starcraft. Bodi and KB were too nice to teach me to overcome the main mistakes that i usually do. Bodi went out of the way by giving me a proper walkthrough lecture on the very basic build order in the game . Now i daily follow this practice religiously to improve the game.
I dont think of Starcraft as an addiction anymore.(earlier, i used to) Although it distracts me from my life routine and has all the ingredients of a proper addiction but now i have surrendered to the fact that of playing Starcraft lifts my mood..it keeps me happy.. it keeps me running . :D
