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I have to be honest and say that I haven't played this game for myself yet, but I got to watch Jackscepticeye play it and loved it. It was a very engaging game that I feel resonates with a lot of millennials, including myself. We have to wrestle with a lot of social issues and other problems that sometimes can feel like our previous generation just threw at us without help.  Many of us walking fresh out of high school aren't sure how we can carry ourselves forward, but we feel like we have to have all of the answers and carry the weight of the world. We're scared, and uncertain, and frustrated, and in a lot of ways we're still young.

I'm turning 20 in a couple days guys, and these kinds of thoughts have been on my mind more than usual, because I'll really be leaving behind my teens, and I'm not sure what to make of that.  I don't think I'm much different than I was when I was in high school, and I know I'm still learning a lot of things. I'm ok with that. In fact, it's something I'd like to keep doing. But sometimes, when I see my old friends and see how much they're carrying themselves onward to their own futures, I feel out of touch. I just don't know if I'm moving at the right pace to carry myself onward to my own future, and I definitely struggle socially.  Heck, I get anxious just trying to talk to somebody on the phone or even over email--Nevermind any lasting relationships anymore. I'm trying to be ok with that and help myself without losing who I am. Sometimes, I feel like my life is on a hamster wheel: I see everything and everyone running past me, I try to keep up, but I can't move forward.

In some ways I feel like Bea, because I feel like I have a lot of obligations to be there for my family.  But I'm in college and at times I feel more like Mae.  To be honest, I didn't want to go to college at all. The way I saw it, it would just be another four years dealing with people I didn't like and teachers who wouldn't really help me get where I wanted to be. I'd just be another statistic.  These feelings were only solidified because all I've ever wanted to go into are the arts and humanities and the so-called "volunteers" that were supposed to be trying to push us toward college my senior year always looked at me like I was the biggest idiot for trying. I knew I'd have to try to make my way on my own for the most part. In some ways I found I was right and in others I was wrong. I've met good and bad people alike up there. Either way, I was lucky enough to get a scholarship and go, but it was my parents that really pushed it. I can't tell you how many times they've talked about how proud they are for me getting it--and it's probably because they didn't go themselves--but I also can't tell you how many times I've gotten really stressed over classes and have fought with my mom all while reminding her that it wasn't my idea to go there in the first place. Then I've got cousins who reallydo want to go to college, and I have to be the example and find a way to help them because no one else will. And now that I'm this far, I'm too stubborn a person to give up easily.

Sometimes I feel like a broken mess, and that maybe things won't get any better. But then I remember that I'm not alone, and that I've got a lot of people to comfort and support me as much as I can be someone who can comfort and support others. That's something that I'm really happy that "Night in the Woods" teaches us. Because we're all going through something: Sometimes we're going to fall to our worst and sometimes our inner demons are going to try to take over us, but we can pull through it together.  The world is going to keep changing, we'll keep changing, but that just means we have every opportunity to learn new things and grow as people.

Description
I have to be honest and say that I haven't played this game for myself yet, but I got to watch Jackscepticeye play it and loved it. It was a very engaging game that I feel resonates with a lot of millennials, including myself. We have to wrestle with a lot of social issues and other problems that sometimes can feel like our previous generation just threw at us without help.  Many of us walking fresh out of high school aren't sure how we can carry ourselves forward, but we feel like we have to have all of the answers and carry the weight of the world. We're scared, and uncertain, and frustrated, and in a lot of ways we're still young.

I'm turning 20 in a couple days guys, and these kinds of thoughts have been on my mind more than usual, because I'll really be leaving behind my teens, and I'm not sure what to make of that.  I don't think I'm much different than I was when I was in high school, and I know I'm still learning a lot of things. I'm ok with that. In fact, it's something I'd like to keep doing. But sometimes, when I see my old friends and see how much they're carrying themselves onward to their own futures, I feel out of touch. I just don't know if I'm moving at the right pace to carry myself onward to my own future, and I definitely struggle socially.  Heck, I get anxious just trying to talk to somebody on the phone or even over email--Nevermind any lasting relationships anymore. I'm trying to be ok with that and help myself without losing who I am. Sometimes, I feel like my life is on a hamster wheel: I see everything and everyone running past me, I try to keep up, but I can't move forward.

In some ways I feel like Bea, because I feel like I have a lot of obligations to be there for my family.  But I'm in college and at times I feel more like Mae.  To be honest, I didn't want to go to college at all. The way I saw it, it would just be another four years dealing with people I didn't like and teachers who wouldn't really help me get where I wanted to be. I'd just be another statistic.  These feelings were only solidified because all I've ever wanted to go into are the arts and humanities and the so-called "volunteers" that were supposed to be trying to push us toward college my senior year always looked at me like I was the biggest idiot for trying. I knew I'd have to try to make my way on my own for the most part. In some ways I found I was right and in others I was wrong. I've met good and bad people alike up there. Either way, I was lucky enough to get a scholarship and go, but it was my parents that really pushed it. I can't tell you how many times they've talked about how proud they are for me getting it--and it's probably because they didn't go themselves--but I also can't tell you how many times I've gotten really stressed over classes and have fought with my mom all while reminding her that it wasn't my idea to go there in the first place. Then I've got cousins who reallydo want to go to college, and I have to be the example and find a way to help them because no one else will. And now that I'm this far, I'm too stubborn a person to give up easily.

Sometimes I feel like a broken mess, and that maybe things won't get any better. But then I remember that I'm not alone, and that I've got a lot of people to comfort and support me as much as I can be someone who can comfort and support others. That's something that I'm really happy that "Night in the Woods" teaches us. Because we're all going through something: Sometimes we're going to fall to our worst and sometimes our inner demons are going to try to take over us, but we can pull through it together.  The world is going to keep changing, we'll keep changing, but that just means we have every opportunity to learn new things and grow as people.