How games saved people's lives

[firecat]

This article: http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=6031

brought me to this site:

http://gamessavedmylife.tumblr.com/

I don't have an essay long enough to post there, but I sometimes say games saved my sanity because when my Mom was sick, which was something that I had no control over, I found it soothing to play various Facebook games such as Farmville and Fairyland, where the object was to create something, however pointless, in an environment that was very simple, predictable, and orderly.

So it's interesting to see other people acknowledging that games help them in similar ways.

I sometimes read fandomsecrets and http://www.postsecret.com and I like seeing comments about how something supposedly frivolous has made a huge positive difference in someone's life.

Comments

[phoenixpdx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when we were going through the whole job loss/foreclosure/dad dying/pack up 20 years of stuff thing, I found Farm Town and some forms of online solitaire helped me stay sane. (This assumes I'm actually sane, though.) As a culture, we seem unwilling to acknowledge the value of anything that isn't a "job". Which is sad, on so many levels.