Dear Minecraft...
22This is a Thank You video for Minecraft on it’s 10th anniversary. This video isn’t like the other videos I normally post, but I wanted to show gratitude to this game in the only way I knew how. I wrote a letter to Minecraft, and then decided to make it into a video. Everything I said was 100% true and straight from the heart.
A personal story: Back in January, I was dealing with severe anxiety and depression while attending college. It had gotten so bad that I stopped leaving my apartment almost completely and when I would go out I felt extreme paranoia and would occasionally have full on panic attacks. This made it hard to focus on school as well as one of my true passions, Youtube. I tried sticking with Youtube to try and feel any semblance of accomplishment in my life, but it was slow going. I almost had to force myself to work on videos, and during a long editing session in late January, I found myself completely unmotivated, mentally drained and on the verge of quitting Youtube altogether. I talked to some friends about it and decided to stick it out for a little longer because of how much work I had put into this over the years and not wanting to see that work go to waste. In preparation for a video that would never come out, but it was the video I was working on at the time, I was looking for music to put in the video as I often do. And, as I explained in the video above, C418-Sweden was right there in the recommended videos. It was completely random, I hadn’t been listening to anything with any resemblance to Minecraft music at all and it wouldn’t have fit well in my video either. But I decided that I wanted to hear that song. So I clicked on the video. I sat there and listened to the whole song and I was fully in tears by the time it ended. Something about that song spoke to me that night on a very real level. I think it reminded me of a time when I was truly happy. And it had certainly been awhile since I had felt that kind of happiness. I wanted that again. That song wasn’t the sole motivation for me to get help mind you, but it stuck in my head over the coming weeks, before finally, I’d had enough of living in a completely depressed state and decided to do something about it. I moved back home, got on medication and started going to therapy again. The results weren’t immediate. For one thing, I had felt that by moving back home that I had failed myself. I didn’t make it through the first year that I lived on my own and I felt disappointed at first, but over time those thoughts went away. I focused on my mental health and finishing out my semester strong. That meant that Youtube would be an afterthought for awhile, which is why I took such a long hiatus earlier this year. But in the end, it was worth it. I can say with 100% certainty that I am the happiest I’ve been in a long, long time. And I feel like I’ve made a good return to Youtube. I’ve posted 3 videos in 2 weeks and I’ve started to stream again, but the most important part is that I still love doing this. I mean, I have to love it if I’ve been doing it for 8 years now. And I plan on sticking around for awhile longer. I think back to just 4 months ago, and to think of how my mentality has changed since then is pretty amazing. I wonder if I would have changed my lifestyle if I hadn’t clicked on that video of that song from that game that night? I like to think I still would have, but it might have taken me a bit longer. Listening to C418-Sweden truly inspired me to want to be happy again. Thank You, Minecraft.
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