Apparently, there are many conflicts that are going about in my household right now. One of them concerns the internet.

For my entire life, I have lived in a home gifted with the privilege of high speed internet. This was a privilege that my parents utilized to their fullest. Thus, I was bestowed my first computer-- a Windows 98- when I was only five years of age. This marked my lifelong addiction of online gaming.

For all my life, all the highlights of my life included video games. It grew to the extent that my entire existence as an individual settled its roots and sprouted around it. A life without the ready access of internet began to seem unfathomable. I developed an attachment to the net and an unhealthy addiction to the sanctuary it provided me. I used the internet as a shield, something so I would not have to face reality. It became my life.

But as my internet addiction grew, so did the conflicts of my family. While I have a addiction to video games, my sister, on a different coin, is addicted to social networking. It has become her lifeline. Deprived of it, she grows tetchy and irritable. The same goes for me and video games. I become irritable without it. Because of this, the family bond began to disassociate. Meals were often eaten late in front of a screen.

Seeing this, my parents came to a decision. The internet will have to go. Because of this, I am announcing my resignation from Wizard101, Runescape, WOW, and all the video games that currently constitute my life. I will still be able to upload Deviations via the library computers when I have time.

As I am typing this journal on a iPad in a coffee shop, I reflect back on my life. Although the internet has provided me many things, it has also devastated my life. Here I stand, friendless, purposeless and hopeless. Although the unexpected removal of the internet from my life was not my choice, I am positive that this will allow me to concentrate more on more meaningful things in life. Things such as the family that I turned my back to, or the education that I took for granted. All things happen for a reason. Perhaps this was for me to reclaim all that I have lost.

But don't worry. I wont be completely dead on DA. I will still upload stuff on my occasional visits to the library. But believe me. I will be doing a lot more drawing.

Cheers.

-Avery Fang