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Around four and a half years ago I was dealing with severe depression and suicidal ideation. A heavy way to start this post, I know, but it's important to know. League was honestly one of the only things getting me through the day. I'd queue up and just absorb all my thoughts into playing the game so as not to dwell on the harmful ones. I started playing around season 2 (when Varus was released) and all my original League friends from high school had stopped playing by the time I was dealing with this illness so most of my games I was playing alone. League just helped by essentially being a white noise, a distraction, to the craziness in my head. I was in a bad relationship at the time which really didn't help but more on that later.
So one day out of these endless monotonous days where I am just trying to survive, I queue up for a game of league. Lock in Janna, I'm supporting an Ezreal. I never talk in game, but my adc was very friendly. It was a nice change in pace. He got me to talk and we stomped that game together. He sends me a friend request and I actually accept it. I never accept random friend requests but this one game experience was just so positive, I gave it a go. He introduces me to his league group and we all become really good friends.
It was among them that I met Chris.
He was always my favorite, always the funniest, in my opinion, of a very funny group of people. He was always the person I looked forward to seeing and talking to the most when I got online. If I saw him online I knew I'd have a good time. I was still dealing with heavy depression and a bad relationship but things were starting to get better.
About six months pass and finally I dump my old relationship. Things started getting better and better and all the while I'd get on and play league with Chris and our friends almost every day. I finally realized why I always looked forward to spending time with Chris and I sent him a message confessing my feelings for him. To my greatest delight he felt the same way for me. He said he would have told me how he felt sooner but thought I was still getting over my ex (who I was very much over).
After that we talked every single day over Skype for hours and hours at a time since he and I lived on opposite sides of the country. Playing league each day together, along with other games we both liked. We didn't even always have to talk, but we always had Skype on and always just hung out with each other. It made the distance between us feel not so distant. We decided we wanted to meet each other in person and picked the upcoming 2016 LCS World Semi-Finals in NYC to do so. So we did, along with some of our other league friends.
Meeting each other was an incredible experience and getting to see the best of 5 for ROX vs SKT together could not have been more perfect. It was phenomenal set of games to watch, to be fair.
We keep making plans to see each other again and each time we had to part was very very hard. We met for birthdays and Christmas and we met each other's families and we fell deeply, deeply in love. This meeting up and parting with each other lasted a few months before we started talking about marriage and living with each other. I met with him again, flying across the country to him again, and he proposed. I said yes. I decided to move my whole life across the country and away from my family to live with him. It was honestly the scariest thing I have ever done and it did take me a long while to adjust. It was like jumping off a cliff and hoping you will learn to fly on the way down. Crazy but perhaps not entirely impossible. It was the riskiest thing I have ever done but I'm so happy I did.
We stayed engaged for about 3 years before we were finally financially able to pay for a small wedding about 3 months ago so we started planning on getting married on November 2, 2019.
This past weekend we married each other and it was the happiest day of my entire life. We're so similar and he makes me laugh every single day, even on bad ones of which there have been plenty. But I trust him and love him with all my heart and I sometimes think back to that day where I first met his (and now my) very close friend, Ed. Had I not been on league, had I not queue'd up at that moment, had I not played support, had someone dodged queue, had I decided to get off and not play just another game maybe none of this would have happened. I'll never know for sure. But somehow by the greatest stroke of luck, League of Legends (of all the things in the world) led me to meeting my now husband. Led me to meeting my best friend and greatest love. Who I will love and cherish for the rest of my days. League has given so much more to me than I have or could ever spend on it. It kept me alive on days where that seemed impossible and it led me to a future I could have never imagined.
Anyways long post over. I just wanted to share how League changed my life for the better in the most permanant way possible.
Even if no one sees this, I've always wanted to share with the LoL community our story, but only after we got married. The time is finally here and now I have done just that.
A very, very, condensed album of our 4+ year journey to the current day
TL;DR: League of Legends led me to my ultimate love, my newlywed husband. I never would have imagined such a thing but you never know where life takes you sometimes, and what things, are going to get you there.
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