Entry#10 esports

 When I was a young lad, at the rightful age of 14, I would spend all my time playing games. I wouldn't even get a job until I was 17, working at Chase Field, the baseball stadium here in Arizona. While doing my first job, I often watched esports. I would mostly watch Smite esports (look at entry #8 for the game). At the end of the day, after work, I would walk to the light rail and wait for the train to arrive. I would have my friends walk with me after a long day of serving hot dogs. I would show my friends awesome clips of pro players doing impossible trick shots after trick shots in Smite that would leave me in awe. My friends thought it was goofy to see these "geeks" play games and not football, "a real man's game," as they would say. I would just keep my love of esports to myself since most people think it's dumb. Esports have gradually taken over the world of professional athletes. 

When I tell you that you can make money playing games online for basically free, it sounds too good to be true, right? Wrong! Today, esports players, or even just popular players online, make millions, and I mean millions. These people can build their own brand off of being good at games. They start their own businesses by playing video games. What I would give to travel back in time to tell myself, "Keep playing this game till your hands come off." During my peak in gaming, I was ranked number 16 in the world of Smite, and at the time, I didn't share it with the world. I would just keep it to myself because people would think I had no life because I was ranked number 16 in the world. Times have changed. We now live in a world where playing games at a high level is cool. Like what? You're telling me that if I had continued to play Smite at a high level, I could have made millions of dollars by live streaming my games and performing cool trick shots while going 50 and 0 in multiple games? >_>

Despite the fact that I stream on Twitch about once a month and earn $20, I feel like my time has passed. Now I see parents coaching their children to become professional gamers. If I told my mom I wanted to play games before leaving, she would hit me and say, "You will never be successful if you play games." I saw online that this kid made 1.2 million from a tournament in Fortnite by beating 10 other people. It just goes to show you should always stick with what you love. Otherwise, you lose out on making millions. *sigh*