--Originally published at #iTecGDA – METANOIA
So last weekend I went to Mexico City to a Collegiate League final of my favorite video game. It was pretty cool, everything was paid by the company that made it (God bless you Riot Games) so we had $1000 each day for food and free breakfast buffet which made us eat like pigs, played till 4 AM each day and had a really big suites 10/10 experience, that’s not all though. I got to meet a friend.
On the opposite team there was a guy who I met a couple years ago in the Internet, we became good friends but I never thought I’d get to meet him. I learned that he was from Tabasco and is coursing his first semester in the ITESM Monterrey, he choose ITC (Basically ISC) too and well we have kept in contact.
I won’t go all effeminate in my story so let’s get to business. Was there a difference in what he perceived from my online persona and his expectations and what he got when he met me? Apparently not, he told me I was the same autistic jokester as always (how kind of him) and he just expected me to be taller. Fair enough I’m 1.65m tall.
I expected him to be shorter…
I however have had different experiences, people who are way kinder in person or just flat out shy. This makes me think that they create their online persona to hide themselves from the world or they feel more comfortable and secure with themselves in their little bubble. I know I do, I’m just good at hiding it I guess. God I love to ramble.
