The Eternal Flames

Hi everyone,

Over the last 12 months, I have been a bit of a liability to the guild. To start off with, at the start of Cata, I was suffering from burnout from work and through too much wow. This affected me and my ability to play and I slacked off. Then I started down the path to recovery from my burnout only to keep getting knocked back into it by one of my work colleagues. Then in the middle of the year, I hit another crisis. I suspected that I was suffering from depression and this was confirmed by a visit to the doctors and a shrink. I took a month off work and from computers (just... I spent a bit of time on them while in Oz) and I went back home to Australia to start my recovery.

While I was out in Oz, and possibly before, I started to reconnect with an old friend (of the female persuasion) who I knew from when I lived in Bristol... and we have been getting closer ever since. Things are looking good in that area and hopefully I can convince her to come and visit me and things can connect properly for us.

I am going to be looking to move into a new house soon and get a new circle of friends around me in the area I am moving to. This is going to be helped by the fact that I have another friend who lives in the area. This gives me someone who I can get out and about with to do stuff, like going to the gym and the pub on the weekends.

This is all going to be part of my recovery from the depression.

And as I recover, I will become more active in my leadership of the guild and in my raiding team.

We are a good guild, but I have let things slip too much with my RL issues affecting how I deal with stuff in the game. I cant promise at this point that I will be 100% effective from right now... but I will be working at getting things together before too much longer.

Cheers,

Mark