Come Cataclysm I'm going to....

• Get my 3 mains to 85
• Get a Worgen
• Try and eventually get enough gold to make a choppa
• Actually try and raid seriously
• Level fishing, cooking and first aid (I'm very lazy at this)
• Level archeaology (this does sound fun)

But some of my guildies are getting a bit disillusioned with the might Blizzard mega-game. I'm not sure how I feel cause there is so much I want to do in game, so much I haven't done that sounds and looks cool. But there is so much more outside of the game world. I guess it is easy, as I have read in the media, to replace real life goals with virtual ones.

I never take a walk, though I live 5 minutes from a beach, half an hour from a national park. I never pick up my guitar any more, there are jobs around the house that need to be done. I suppose I'm saying that it is easy to lose vast chunks if time to playing WOW, but that is not all bad. My wife plays so we have a hobby we do together, so does her sister, her sister's boyfriend (WOW is how they met), her other sister plays too. We have made friends too on WOW, and actually met real people that were lovely. It is a balancing act and I think that the balance sometimes sways too far to gaming.

There is much more to life than WOW and we shouldn't let it restrict personal, spiritual and intellectual development, it should enhance life not take it over. We are more than pixellated avatars and we shouldn't forget it.