Ah, Animal Crossing! Or how I used to explain it to people "It's kinda like the Sims, but your neighbors are animals and you don't die if you can't pee!" It's a video game series that I can say I played most of the games in— we don't talk about Amiibo Festival.

I enjoy old fantasy films like Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951) and 1939’s The Wizard of Oz. With these classic films shown from generation to generation, a thought popped into my head-- are some people more like Alice or Dorothy?

I'm a sentimental packrat. On display or in storage are trinkets from places I visited, greeting cards with handwritten messages from family and friends, old gaming magazines from the 2000s, photographs from gatherings, and many other items that would fill up a page if I tried to list them out.

At that moment, it felt like it was the right thing to do. My action brought some peace, but just like Icarus who flew too close to the sun. I came crashing down into an ocean of embarrassment and foolishness.