Final Fantasy XIV has been an incredible journey so far, but there is one thing that I have learned from it. This game has taught me to slow down and stay present in the moment. It is not about the destination, it is about the journey.
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Thank you for realizing this. People always mistake the goal for the end. The goal's the journey all along.
Inspirational TEDtalk 🙂
Can't wait to join you for another fireside chat. You are some wholesome that I quit my fc in hopes I can join yours
What a wholesome message. I'm glad you feel this way! FFXIV story pays you back tenfold when you enjoy it at your own pace. Rushing through it may just be something you'd regret for a long time. Keep up the great work!
I agree with you 100% I used to be a hardcore raider wanting to see and be at the end as soon as possible. I treated it like a race. But let me tell you, when you rush in FFXIV, you will be lonely. This is especially true during an expansion launch. So take it from us, it's the journey that makes things worthwhile. Not where you'll end up in the end.
You are correct and I mean this in a universal sense. FFXIV might be a good vessel to try and pause, but in general, that pause is sorely needed for everyone and I'm wondering whether that need will get recognized en masse and make people dial back a bit in some spontaneous sense, or we'll just burn out due to the "fast digital consumption bombardment zeitgeist" or whatever we should call it:)
And, the entire thing is frightening. I am in some semi-interesting position, I'm 39, going towards 40 and I experienced the internet in its entirety and how it progressed through phases and how the entire humanity was reshaped by it. At the same time, I never left the ride, so to speak, being in the know and very much present when it comes to trends, games etc. I'll probably never sink into some "boomer state", as all these things are basically what I do, while working and outside of it lol.
The important thing is that I was kinda semi-formed when internet started blooming into what it is now. Yet, I didn't escape that fundamental change towards neuroticism that happened. I know how it is to be without internet at all, without possibility to consume that type of content 24/7, in short, I am very capable of existing in that manner and still, I failed to retain that practice – entirely. And everyone around me went through the same process and it's constantly getting more extreme.
An example. I have two monitors, because of work and usually I "watch" youtube on the other monitor, either minimized if I use some references or some sheet, or just a youtube tab, if I just use one monitor. It's always some meaningful stuff, which isn't that good, but I guess it fills "the void", which isn't a good thing for one's mechanisms and processes, because it shuts down processing and resolution. But it's very enticing, because those things are always less pleasant than the alternative:)
The point of this example is, the line always moves and people get less and less able to function on what should be a normal "line". About 10 years ago, I didn't have youtube in the background for that semi-intrusive noise, I had some instrumental music. Now, that's too "hollow" and I surround myself with "content". If I go even more into the past, I didn't even listen to music while working, I was just sitting there, working.
Now, the counter to that might be to mention simple change of time and adaptation to different environment, tools etc. However, that's not the case in some fundamental sense, because some things are glacial when it comes to how we function. Our psychological models and processes aren't able to adapt in such a short time. They are definitely quicker than physical change, but we're talking about generations upon generations of anxiety-ridden, neurotic between-steps. So, perhaps it's not that good to be consumed by it all. Yet, it's very hard not to. I can't imagine, if I can't just sit for an hour because I want to and I mean "mentally sit", not physically, because I already sit too much physically:)… I can't imagine how things are for some 15 year old who was born into all this and doesn't even have the picture of an alternative.
Btw, I played FFXIV in 2013. and I restarted it now with all the craze going on and I'm taking it slowly. Which you can do here, surprisingly enough, due to a number of factors.
Another free'd from the matrix
Yoshi P is so wholesome he's actually enforcing wholesomeness on a whole community just by virtue of being an amazing example. The fact that he's even said he wants people to be kinder to WoW and its players just continues that trend.
And it's pretty cool to have a literal representation of your slowing down and taking your time with you slowing down your reading.
This was said while I was speedrunning the MSQ in the background lol (don't worry tho, its an alt)
I think its also good that if you do want to take a break, the game doesnt punish you from taking a time off. You log off, and your character will be waiting for you until you come back.
Exactly my point my friend I've been trying to tell people during my ff11 experience. Slow down digest the game and have fun with your friends around the world.
relaxing in this game? maybe when i finished a bit more currently burning through beast tribes and leveling other jobs like crazy.
it hard to enjoy life and everything around u, if u rushing through thing and only look at distant goal
Love this, and it's soo true. This game is helping me more than trying to force myself into mindfulness meditations did. I'm practicing relaxing, and pacing, and not pushing, and in a form that I feel more at home in. Thank you for putting into words what I hadn't yet. <3
The madlad actually said "We live in a society."
Moderately based.
Well said! I brought my bad habits into this game from other games as well. Slowing down has made the game and my game time so much better. So much more meaningful. There is no rush to the end. Take time to savor and experience all this has to offer.
Very well said, I’m still fairly recently new to FFXIV, been playing for 5 months and It was all just so good that I couldn’t stop playing.. and it’s not that I’ve run out of things to do but I’ve def hit a burnout, like I wanna log in but don’t even wanna que, been leveling BLU recently and even noticed as doing it solo I was just mowing through it, so in one of the masked carnivale fights that I just couldn’t keep trying at I just logged out and I didn’t really feel bad, imma recollect myself and get back to it when I feel ready, and I think that was the hardest thing for me to learn and face recently. You never really notice how fast you are consuming games when you are swept up in the highs.
I accidently found your FF14 videos….but….it was a happy accident
Thank you algorithms
In America when you slow down you die? I can name 50 other countries where this rule apply to more then in US. If anything in America they tell you to slow the fuck down. I don't understand that reference…
Something related I begrudgingly learned in a required college course that has stuck with me forever: identify the difference between good and bad stress in your life and adjust accordingly. Wanting to take on a challenge, driving yourself to improve, using energy to achieve mastery or a goal is eustress. It's not the same as distress, but you can only handle so much stress of any kind. They share a meter, as it were. If you are spending time dealing with too much distress you'll never have an opportunity to pursue eustress. If you're trying to use eustress to deal with distress… You're just going to feel overstressed.
TLDR: Breathe. Recognize that sometimes surviving is an achievement.
"We are constantly consuming media."
With YouTube on one monitor, Twitch on my phone, and FFXIV on the other monitor….
I feel personally attacked
And you don't even have to rush for Endwalker. When it releases if you hit lvl 80 before the end of 5.0, then you'll still keep getting xp since the lvl cap increased. Which also means you won't be rushing in Endwalker to level.
Enjoy yourself!