It all started when I was watching some fun yugioh anime. The intense music, action and plot was awesome and as I kept watching the animation grew better. The plot twists were alright and the decisions were questionable. For example a player saying “I attack the moon!” or “Now with the effect of my spell card the sea will now rise up for no reason at all and my monsters gain attack points while you can only play one monster.” I know it’s confusing. Despite the weird plays I saw I still loved it with all of my heart and this is what inspired me to play yugioh, a card game that is more fun and surpasses pokemon card games.

Although there was an issue on my journey…… No one played it at my age in elementary. So I had no one to play the game with and I had a hard time making friends, not really but it felt lonely. Fortunately my cousin knew how to play the game as it was his childhood. That and I found some friends in middle school who also played yugioh and thanked the lords. Out of 2 SCHOOLS 4-5 kids played the game. Thank god I don’t have to spend the rest of my days as some lone yugioh player. Our duels were enjoyable and one-sided as my cousin kept sweeping me withs GOSH DARN DARK MAGICAL CIRCLE AND HIS ROBE!!! (Yes there is a card that has the name robe.) The circle kept removing everything from play, leaving my field in a panic state as there was literally nothing to do. All of his monsters were beyond 3000 attack points and they just spawn every 3-5 turns. But even then I progressed as I kept trying and trying and trying to keep on losing like 1,000,000 times. Most of the time I made little mistakes that will come back to bite me 1,000 times harder. It goes to show how a simple card game can turn you into some kind of prodigy.

Finally after some many hardships victory was somehow in my reach because my goal was half burn damage and next level thinking. Seriously, if you think predicting your opponents moves in the next 5 turns is hard, probably if you play pokemon or something then you’re wrong. You have to somehow plan everything out from the moment you draw breath to the moment you actually take a turn. P.S if your opponent messes you up then yeah have a backup plan on layers AND LAYERS of backup plans. Basically just be very smart. But yea I won the match after like 5-7 YEARS of losing to the same guy using the exact same deck over and over again I won. Destroying he had on the field losing my sanity and brutally slaughtering his monster and everything they owned. His spells and traps were a messy problem but I carefully planned the perfect counters to everything. And no I don’t need therapy. I took some breaks every now and then.

All and all this taught me a valuable lesson somehow better than what school makes us learn. That trial and error is inevitable and losing sucks. But it’s what the road showed me along the way. all of the losses, all of the humiliation, all of the suffering it was worth it to get that one win out of 200,000,000,000,000 tries. Something to mention is that in middle school I was the weakest out of my friends but I managed to climb the ladder. Abraham just had to get the annoying, indestructible, CAN’T JUST STAY DOWN FOR THE LOVE OF GOD JAR!!! Sorry I’m calm, don’t worry I’m fine. Yea he had some other stuff that ruins me like his Topologic Zeroboros that just removes everything from play and gets like 10,000 attack points or just a plain Blue-Eyes White Dragon. But then he just lost it all in a laundry machine I don’t know how but whatever. I managed to win by using some destroy by effect cards. But back to the main topic there I finally stand at the pinnacle of pure persistence and after binge watching countless yugioh card videos I………… still want to face him again as there is no one else to play the game with.