I have to address an important issue that has come about in today's society.
It is taking over the lives of many people I love and I hate to see what it does to them.
Up all night, cursing, screaming, frustrated, thinking you won't be able to move on....
I have sadly fallen into it as well.
Candy Crush.
I finally beat level 125 on Candy Crush. I was stuck on it forever. I cried tears of joy.
But I am Erica...and I am addicted to Candy Crush.
I started playing a short time after the Christmas of 2012. Right away, I was hooked. That wonderful feeling you get when you combine a striped candy with the sprinkle donut ball...uhhhhh so good. I would be up all night every night crushing candy. No sleep was needed. No work needed to be done. It would all get put off for the magical world of Candy Crush.
Even if I tried to put the game down for a minute, I would still be playing it in my head. I would put Paddy my iPad down at night and I would see the candy in my head. I would make the moves in my head. I did not care about anything or anyone else. Just crushing that candy.
Level 65 was a rough time for me. I found myself slamming my iPad down, wanting to throw it out the window or break it in half. It caused a violent streak in me that I never want to go back to. Poor Paddy was abused and I did not mean it at all. Candy Crush just makes you do things you don't want to do.
For instance, spend 99 cents on 5 extra moves.
Around June of 2013, I rid myself of my Candy problem. I was back to normal. I was sleeping at night. I was functioning normally during the day. I wasn't calling my friends at 3AM asking them for more lives. I wasn't seeing Candy Crush boards in my head when I wasn't playing the game. Everything was back to normal.
Then one day, someone asked me to help them with a level. I did not want to, but I couldn't help myself. It was right there. I had to do it. I beat the level on the first try and the high was back.
I was one month clean and I had thrown it all away in an instant. Major relapse back into a life I had once known and tried so hard to rid myself of.
Now I'm back to late nights, crushing candy, bothering my Facebook friends for lives, getting EXTREMELY frustrated when I miss a chance to match 5 candies and make the sprinkle donut thing, and abusing Paddy. Someone I work with even posted a picture on my Facebook wall of a sign outside a building which read "Candy Crush Rehab." I am back to that dark place.
This post is my cry for help.
Help to unlock the next episode.
