Bach

I know I've been insanely busy these past couple of weeks since I've been back to school. But I must say that I've been having a fantastic time this year. I've met so many new people inlcuding a handful of other chem majors and gotten to know some of the people in my dorm building. I've even joined/started a D&D group. While I've made new friends in the dorms I'm trying to stay in contact with my friends not at Cal Poly via various Internet functions whether it's ichat or WoW or Facebook. 

That being said, I wrote this about a month ago:

"Often times in WoW there are players that you get to know through the game that live who knows where, that disappear from the game. While this is a normal occurrence for people to take a break from the game (I've done it before), the catch is that since you only know them in the context of the game that they seem to disappear off the face of the earth until they log back into the game. That sort of unreliability saddens me, because there's a handful of people that I only really know in the context of the game. Some of these people I've added on Facebook and who I would be able to contact and then there are others who I know almost next to nothing about (here's looking at you Bach) but get along with smashingly in game."

Turns out that Bach is leaving WoW. And by doing so, as I described above, essentially means that he may well cease to exist to me. Which is hard to react to.  As most of you may know I use a "Voice Over IP" program that allows us to talk to other players while playing the game, so in a way I know him very well, and not at all. How am I supposed to react-- the most I know about him is his character name and basic personally, yet I still miss him. It's been two years. I understand his reasoning behind a decision like that, but it still makes me sad (and confused honestly). And it's a hard feeling to describe that you can bond to someone so closely it seems or feels to me and yet never know them.