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My dearest friend Pultuchrindinous Vendetta was banned for apparently no reason last week. She had amassed large amounts of gold all in legit and honest ways, but apparently Gaia mods can't stand to have anyone richer and more popular then them on a freakin' website, that they just had to ban her.

We both decided that this was a wake up call, and it's another reminder that we've been spending waaay too much of our lives on Gaia. I myself have averaged about 3 hours every day. I didn't even go on everyday, but damn near close. The maximum time i've spent on Gaia in one day is about 16 hours straight. Makes me look a huge loser, but I won't deny it. I was very depressed when I started actively playing.

3 X 366= 1096 hours.... times 4 years = 4392 hours. 4392 hours = 183 days straight.

183 days doesn't seem like a lot. I have a feeling i did my math wrong. I was never good at math, but anyway

my old friend Ashley introduced me to Go-gaia in about 9th grade. I guess that was 2005-2006? She was more into anime than me, and I didn't form an account till later in the summer, after school was over. When I did, I was hooked and I would play the puzzles for hours, not even thinking about making gold...at first. Later after gold became an obsession in 2007, I would make a lot of mule accounts, including this one called Captain Whee. I would make sure to have a seperate identity for each account, so none of the mods would suspect of just how much gold I was making.

I just wanted something to do; my parents were very strict and had an almost Victorian way of thinking, and hardly let me out of the house.

But im not here to write a sob story. This is for any of my Gaia friends who actually read my s**t, and didn't just add me for the numbers. I just want to tell you, (though i'm sure you've realized this before plenty of times) that please don't waste your life on Gaia. Yea the forums are entertaining and it's a nice distraction once in awhile. But I wish that I had taken the time i'd been on here, and instead been out in the real world. I should've spent more time on helping my family become better people, but I didn't. I abandoned them for stupid items on Gaia.

Yah, Gaia seemed a haven when I was depressed, but it only temporarily halted all the bad things I didn't want to think about. I am gonna miss all the funny and creative people on here, you're a reason why I even stayed so long.

But I need a severe intervention, which i think seperation from my internet will only do. It's time for me to grow up and start earning real money instead of gold. I'm ******** 18, and Danielle just turned 19, a week after her account got banned. What a nice birthday present for her.....But anyway Gaia is no good for me. Well, one good thing that came out of it I guess was meeting a certain boy on here who went to my school. He taught me a lot of things, and i dont even know if he goes on here anymore, but if he does, and he just happens to read this--- I still havent forgotton that I gave him a bunch of my s**t back in march 2008 --all to get that stupid Angelic Scarf-- then he got his a** banned. That was one wake up call for me to quit Gaia back then. But I came back because I wanted to talk to him again. But we'll never talk again im sure because

I can't even get that mad though. I am mad at myself for all the hours I spent on here, which I could've done other things. No, I don't regret talking to the people i've met on here...they are just as esteemable as the people i've met in "real life". Actually I shouldn't even point out that theres a difference. My gaia nerds on here helped me feel better, so they are "real" too. But now i've made my point, and i'm ******** gone.