I wish you the very best. Keep it real and believe in yourself, modern society is conceited. Willpower alone can work bloody miracles and middle-aged people, nowadays, are and function, almost as effectively as if they had been young lads, instead. Keep yourself on the edge (productively) at all times and let nothing and no one put you down, especially by the "it is too early", or "it is too late", false mentality. Heck, there are people in their sixties and seventies working out in the gym like teens, or teens starting a family getting married etc; life has all kinds of people and strata inside it. People love to gossip, people love to criticize, but what they love most, is putting players down... Never listen to those fools. Do your thing and do it well, let your every action (re)sound your desire and with each and every move of yours, to get one step closer to your aims, goals and the realization of your dreams. Key is determination, courage and "immovability".
I apologize for my long rant. As an outcast and as someone who has already tasted situations like the ones you describe in that last paragraph of yours... As someone whom each and every ex of his effed him up, messed him up and the last of them even ruined my entire (social) life and any chance to a viable future... I HAD to barge in and extend a hand, a spoken thought, a friendly pat on the back to slap some courage in a (gamer)bro. Indeed, everything happens for a reason. And life is more than beautiful. Sometimes though, you have to become the beast, in order to savor the beauty... At other times, beauty is but a facade, an illusion, or a short, fleeting moment. But those who taste beauty, keep the sensation for long, throughout body, mind, soul, memory...
Initially i thought of requesting to participate for a game, but after reading the edited paragraph, i won't ask for chance to get a gift. Besides, life out there is the most elaborate and sophisticated of games... You can solo it even while being handicapped by others on purpose and maliciously, should you find the resolve and the motivation, to. Now go out there and become a bloody champion! I won't forgive you otherwise.
Post edited May 22, 2017 by KiNgBrAdLeY7