I'm quitting neopets
Dear David,
I'm 12 and have spent 1 year on neo.
One day I saw a board on neopets that went something like "I'm quitting neopets". A lot of people came. I asked to myself why would he want to quit a great site. Then I saw something that something about your pets being pixels. As a geek I never thought of this till now. I realized I spent hours on the computer, wasted my time, wasted my life, wasted eneergy and computer space. Then I wrote just let me finish this application for a pet I'll freeze in a few weeks. But then I said "I" am putting if off, I'm doing it today". I ripped the paper and threw it in the litter basket.
I took the step of first deleting ALL documents and pictures. Then, I took I big step. I self froze. It was hard to do this. But when I got there I had confidence. I saw my pet crying. I said "She is just pixels". I typed my username and my password. I took a breath and pushed enter. I felt free. That day, I did something I hadn't done since my dog died I went to my fav. park. It was 30mins away by bike. I didn't think "I low on np!" I said "I don't need np". It felt like I was running away from neopets. . . it felt good. I got to the park and began writing a story. No, Not a "The cybunny dashed in the woods story" a normal story one with humans etc. I rode back as happy as anyone could possibly be. That night I didn't waste time on neopets. I took a nap, read a book, e-mailed my sister and did my homework. I realized I had spent 1 year on neopets for nothing. Nothing at all. Just a few numbers of how many neo-points I have or some different colors of pixels. I realized how stupid it was.
Then I got home from school the next day I had to turn on my computer. I needed help. I went Ask Jeeves and typed in "Help! I'm Addicted to neopets" and you popped up. When I read your articles I felt great that I had froze. I felt great I quit. I had confidence in myself.
After I finish this I writing to neopets on a spare account. So what if they freze
me? I quit! I won't be back on to suffer!
Your truly,
~~Victoria Evans~~