A jump in the past.

I met a friend this morning.

It was funny because I saw him in front of the Bridge Street Books shop and, since he's also a writer, the composition was perfect. Shame I didn't have my camera on hand at the time.

Anyway.

He saw me too, and he crossed the street for a double cheek kiss in the Italian way and a brief chat.

After the usual pleasantries, we ended to talk about his first book (which I read in less than one week), he showed me the cover of the second one (still to be written, completed and released) and at some point I asked if he played Myst.

It was then that I realised why we became friends so easily.

No, I'm not ashamed to admit I'm a Nerd. And I'm even proud of it.

Now, I guess my brother bought Myst that was about 2003. Unlike other videogames, Myst was a first person interaction with the virtual environment. The Player find a book and touching the last page, (s)he literally get sucked in a parallel world by the book. To get out of there, you need to find clues and tools and your only choice is to go around and explore everything. 

I remember I had a copybook beside the Mac where me an me brother wrote all the combinations already found. I literally got sucked by the game. Once back home from work, I had to turn on the computer and (since the game had the resume option already) get back where I (we) left. It was the most amazing game I ever played. Just logic and memory. No violence, no shootings. Thinking. I never finished the game at the time, I don't even remember why I gave up or what kept me to go ahead till the end.

Today, of course, I read on Wiki about it and I found out that there were four ends, depending on the path you'd have chosen.

 

Once I win the Lotto, I buy a three bedroom house/flat and one of them will be the MacRoom. Just Apple and technology.

Fortune that dreaming is still free...