Hey there.
I tracked you down to this comment chain and made this account to tell you I think your worlds are beautiful. Evidently, I'm not the only one to do this - I don't know if that makes it more or less meaningful - and I realize it's only a game, but I think it's clear you've put a lot of soul into your creations, and after seeing your soul on display like that, I thought it only right to reach out and tell you I think it is beautiful.
Kind regards,
Folle
No problem - if anything, I should be thanking you. You've worked hard to give me, and other players, a window into your soul, to let us connect with you in a one-way fashion without ever demanding anything in return. That is exactly why I reached out; I didn't want this connection to be one-way. I wanted you to have the opportunity to feel the same - for lack of a better word - intimacy I felt when I played your worlds. Were I of better mettle, I would make a world for you to play in return, a chance to relate to me as I have related to you. Maybe some day I will, if I can muster the courage. For now, this call into the void will have to suffice.
Thank you for showing me you. It was a beautiful experience. As someone with ADHD, focus in particular resonated with me, although the real cream of the crop, as I'm sure the other players making their pilgrimage here to pay their homage to you would agree, is doing good. You leave a bit of yourself in all your worlds, even - actually, especially - your rather helpful useful images, which is how I "met" you in the first place, but doing good is something else. Again, I realize it's only a game, and I understand you probably made all these worlds years ago and were another woman then, and I won't pretend to actually know you based on what amounts to a 5 minute visual poem, but that doesn't mean the human connection I experienced while playing them felt any less real. Now, I don't know if you're struggling - I hope you aren't, but I also hope you won't fault me for thinking you are, based on doing good - but if you are, I thought this could be my way of giving you the opportunity to connect with me the way you gave me the opportunity to connect with you:
You don't have to smile for anyone but yourself.
You are not a failure for feeling unhappy.
You don't have to be doing good.
You are good enough.
There's a thousand things I want to say to that - how I know exactly what you mean, how I've gone back and played your worlds so many times as well, how happy I am to have given you a bit of what you have given me, how that's what I was intending to give you all along, and the list goes on - but I can't seem to pick any one response. I don't want to write all of them and come off as obsessive or even unhinged, but I also don't want to write nothing. I considered adhering to the KISS principle and just replying with something minimal, like a simple 'thank you' or ':)' but that didn't seem quite right either. In truth, I don't know what to write, and whenever that happens, I always just resign myself to thinking out loud in a weird kind of meta commentary that I don't really know what to do with or how to wrap up, so, uh.. Yeah, this is that.
