What would life be like if Halo were to never of existed?
Life Without Halo?
Well I basically replaced all of my hockey playing time with Halo time, from age 13-17.. so if Halo was never around I would have likely kept going hard with hockey, which would have led me to potentially getting to play hockey in the CIS/NCAA (bit of a stretch, but I like to think that ;)). Now I just play hockey recreationally and go hard as fuck, but also play Halo once in a while so its all good.
I would have never learned how to properly fail before coming to school. Back when I first joined thf, I joined to better learn editing because I knew thf would rip me a new one and I could learn from that. Montage editing has lead to me being more culturally aware, creative, capable, and willing to learn from mistakes. With what I study, a lot of the kids in my year end up being more concerned with being right than with producing a product, which gives me an immense advantage. I've also had the privilege to discuss things with people significantly older than myself. I would be far more naive coming into college in the case that halo had never existed.
Back in 7th grade(2004) was when I started playing this game as well as guitar. On the weekends I had a band with my buddies where we would practice all day then game all night. Once we got into highschool they all started drinking and partying and pretty much quit music and halo. I still wanted to play both but they would really pressure me into drinking with them. My family had a bad history with alcohol so I had been telling myself for the longest time that wasn't gonna be me. I pretty much ditched them and over time gathered a new great group of friends where we gamed and played music all the time, it was awesome. Now I'm 23 and I've only drank once and have had a pretty awesome career out of music. I ran into a few of them recently and they are not doing well from a lot of alcohol/drug abuse. It's crazy how much this game has affected me.