Because gaming, at its core, is imagination and experiencing alternate 
reality--

--you can sink in all your talent, dreams, efforts, whatever have you 
into it.  All can belong, so to speak, although not everyone is a 
part.  The desire to imagine is the unifying thread.  But you can take 
any interest, any hobby, any pasttime-- and find a way to plug it into 
gaming.  Hard science, social science, the arts, academia, sport 
(granted, it's usually of a medieval era nature), etc. can fit in.

..and I'm biased somewhat towards LARP and such because you can do 
that.  If you want to play a character and play a guitar at the same 
time-- for real, you can.  Are you a writer?  Many conventions have 
workshops to show you some ways to get published.

I don't know.. I just see it as a rich pasttime because it is comprised 
of so *many* pasttimes.  I also hope, somehow, that I ultimately never 
outgrow it-- though my participation may wane, I intend to be the old 
gamer who comes around once in a while to see what the kids are doing.

I need not lose touch with reality, for my reality can be as structured 
and as urgent as it needs to be.  But gaming, ah, gaming, that is where 
I know I can put forth any creative flight I fancy.

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Now that I get a gaming fix often enough . . .

I too wish to be a gamer for my entire life, and will probably have ups 
and downs throughout.

Since I am a member of an Action Theatre troupe, I might do better at 
LARP than I used to.

And my last thing to say is: The only way anyone ever stops role 
playing is to die.

1) part of the territory

2) could be; you'd have to try it.

3) damn straight

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