Hyrule is a land of peace once again

I was going to write a long explorative blog about how, after 7 years, I finally beat Zelda Orcarina of Time. I planned on using this game is as the illustration of how video games can be such an enthralling experience (first time I played this game, my friend Mark and I played for 8-10 hours without food or water without realizing it), how this game in particular marked different points of my life (played in college in various states of (un)sobriety, tried to beat it again in that brief period between college and being married when I lived alone and had nothing to do, and now playing it again as a emerging adult) , and how all of this was eerie in that it took me 7 years to beat it, and that's exactly the amount of time the main character needs to warp into the future in order to win. But, in the end, its just a video game.

I finally slew Gannon, Zelda is free from captivity, and Hyrule is safe from tyranny, and now I can close that chapter of my life and sleep better at night.