MyZoo MyObsession

I have been playing on the facebook application MyZoo on and off for about 3 years now, and I am doing pretty well if I do say so myself. It started at uni and became a small craze in my friendship circle, but like most things the hype died down and people got bored and stopped playing. Not me.

I continued with MyZoo relentlessly and even now I dont understand how people could have become tired of it. If MyZoo were real I would be the richest person in the world by a good 100 trillion dollars. My zoo is almost 700 years old and I get as many visitors a day as a small festival. I am incredibly enviromentally conscious as I release almost two thirds of my animals back in to the wild as well as rescuing animals in need.

I became quite content alone in the MyZoo world, however something has occurred that has caused me to question where my loyalties lie. My good friend Toby has started to play MyZoo again. At first I was thrilled, Toby was the person who originally introduced me to MyZoo and I was delighted that he was back in the game. That was until Toby started making progress. Toby's zoo is less that 20 years old and he is already on level 58 (I am on level 165) he is getting through ten challenge levels in less than a week and if his progress continues like this then my lead, that I though was unassailable could slip from my grasp.

I am now having to ask myself what means more to me, MyZoo or my friend? What type of person does that make me, of course I care about my friend more, but the fact I could think that is cause for concern, does my life really revolve around animals that don't even exist? So much so that I would risk long friendships? I think I need to take some time and really think about this, possibly go to a MyZoo retreat or something.

I would like to give Toby a special little message if he should happen to read this, this is my current favourite quote for this situation,

'I don't meet competition. I crush it' Charles Revson.