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Human competitive drive, and my recent lack of it

  Before I start rambling about everything, I would first like to introduce myself, as this is my first Blogspot post.  Hi. I’m David. I’m 22 and enjoy drinking water. I come from the competitive fighting game scene, mainly Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and have also dabbled with various traditional fighting games, along with the Pokemon Trading Card Game. It’s genuinely been a very cool experience getting to compete, being able to travel to new places and meet new people  -  most of the people that I am lucky enough to call my friends come from video games. However, recently I have had a significant issue: recently, my competitive drive has been pretty much non-existent. When you play video games competitively and actively want to be good at them, that’s kind of a big deal. Is it burnout? I’m honestly not sure, but what I do know is that at this very moment, I have lost pretty much all of my desire to compete in the various games that I used to love. I went to CT GamerCon at the Moheg