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Does This Blog Post Count

Riley Norman

I've downloaded the video game. That old relative of a trusted time waster. I've heard of it and even played briefly, but never interrogated. It's world is magical, fantastical and empowering. I could play it. Two hours would vanish, or more. Two or three more late, late in the night. It would start as a faint sense of life dripping away and grow into a torrent of guilt at such waste. I have other tasks. Things to do. I would close the game in disgust, angry at fooling myself with such illusions of more of me, while leaving with a little less of me. I think I'll go make a little more of me.

If I can just write something tonight. Does this blog post count?