For anyone that didn't know Kaleb personally, he was a self proclaimed gamer. He wanted to play minecraft online for a living. That was one of his career goals. I remember that conversation vividly. We had it in the kitchen at the old house. I might have told him he needed a backup plan because he wasn't living in my basement as a grown up playing video games. I know that was a stereotypical statement from watching to much tv and to many commercials. I know there are people that make good money with video games, but I'm sure they are few and far between. And honestly if I could take that statement back I would, he could live in my basement forever playing video games if he was still here, but hindsight is 20/20. Onto the reason for this blog. Pokemon Go.
Pre-Minecraft Kaleb at one time had quite a collection of Pokemon cards. (Which we did give away after his death) Excuse me if I use wrong verbage or call things by the wrong names but Pokemon and Minecraft were two things I never understood. I'm not real good with imaginary concepts. After listening to all the hype over the weekend I downloaded Pokemon Go just to see what the crap people were looking at because at least it wasn't just a bunch of cards. There was an app with a map that you could see. I picked up a few pokeballs and captured a few pokemon, even started an egg in an incubator, then I deleted the app. I know with my type of personality (Kaleb came by it honestly) that would be easily addictive and could overtake my everyday life. At least I can admit these things. That's why I don't have a garden in Farmville anymore (if that game even still exists) You shouldn't plan your life around when your imaginary crops are ready. (In my opinion) Now real crops are a different story.
KALEB WOULD HAVE LOVED THIS GAME. There have been things I've been sad that Kaleb has missed since he's been gone. He missed Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Tyler & Steph's wedding, 4th of July. These are things that I missed having him there for and he would have been ho hum about. But this is the first thing that he is missing that HE would be sad about. I can honestly say if he were still alive I have no doubt he'd have skipped work and been running all over town with friends trying to capture these imaginary little ugly monsters. He'd be at the gyms battling and would have formed or joined a team. This would have taken over his life. It would have brought him much joy. So while there are things he's not there for that make me sad, this has actually been a little different. Now he's missing stuff that he would have loved. This might sound selfish, but I really hope there aren't any Pokeballs in Heaven but that there are a ton of rare Pokemon because I hope he's missing out on something he would have loved. He can't catch a Pokemon without the Pokeball and it'd drive him nuts not being able to do anything about it. Turn about is fair play, we're missing out on Kaleb and he was something that we really loved and there isn't anything we can do about that.
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