My Story of How Animal Jam Changed my Life in Many Ways (Why I Was Never Rare)

Many jammers wonder why OMG why am not as rare as those jammers? How did that jammer get rarer then me I have been playing longer then them? Even I have been going through that phase lots of times. Well I have been playing for about a little over a year half now I am very unrare and I see jammers who have been playing for like a year or less and have like 12 long collars on trade! Well sadly I never learned a lot of my lessons about animal jam till a year after I started animal jam which caused me lose so much opportunities to become the rare jammer I have always wished and still do so. Here are reasons that I learned are common reasons.

My Story: I signed up for animal jam in September of 2014 but, never really got into it till February of 2015. I am not really sure how one day I just loved it but, I did, but then thats when all the fun fun got destroyed in animal jam on April 2015 . I got my first membership to animal jam for one year on April, 3, 2015 and ever since then I got so addicted to animal jam that all I could think and talk about was animal jam, nothing else really. Even worse I couldn't stop thinking about the rares in animal jam. Then when I was at home trading for 2 straight hours per day, getting stressed over being, rare and eventually fell in a trap of scams over scams that I went from a pink sort collar and 3 other short wrists, with a couple den betas to having no den betas. I was so competitive and fell for stupid things like trust trades, best gift wins..., gift me I gift back. It gave me mental stresses at school that it caused me to feel down kind of. Then this is where I really learned my lesson. I learned that animal jam is just a game, rares are not going to define you now or in the future whether you are rare are not because the truth is everyone will out grow the game ajhq does not pay you to play the game and all the rares, subscribers, fans you got will not even matter in the next year, it's not like a god is going to fly down and reward you ten twenty years from now. I definitely learned trusting random people with your things will not make anything better in animal jam and to never trust anyone online even if it's your best friend from school. I became so stressed I quitted animal jam, I gave all my left over beta away, my rare claw my tan carpet, and others, such as rare bow an arrows, and fox hats. I recycled almost every clothing item and den item which included my phantom rug which now if I kept it I could have gotten something good! Anyway after all that stress and giveaways. I never logged on to animal jam till three months. Those three months of not clicking the animal jam play now button was a good decision for me because before I would cry over mean scammers and people sending me mean jam a grams, and losing rares by rares. I had a chance to re raise my confidence in life. Being scammed definitely made a negative impact, I felt less confident in life. The truth is many jammers who scam don't understand the effects on scamming on others but, that is what caused me to feel so hated on an online game and even through school, some people teased me about playing the game, some friends specifically made fun of me for being scammed at school. So if you are scammer then you should really stoop because some people who have been scammed like me probably go through the same phases as me that keeps building up, mental stress for long periods of time. loss of self confidence, and most of all it hurts them. Well anyway it took me about a full month to fully get rid of (a) my addiction (b) the mental stress and (c) the confidence in life. After about September I decided I missed animal jam and took some deep breaths and decided to start over and be like a new jammer not having to stress over rares for awhile. I just focused on enjoying the game how it should be. It felt more like a game and more fun not worrying about rares. Now today when ever I go on animal jam I feel ready to face any mean jammer such as when someone posted on my jammer wall no one likes iceskating or when some one jam a gramed me you have a bad den. It really helped getting over animal jam for three months because now I feel more confident, not just in animal jam but, in real life, I felt like I could finally hold my head tall and say I am Lily (which by the way my real name) and I don't care what you think of me. I am no longer that scared person who would run away or freak out about mean comments or scams. Ever since leaving the animal jam community I felt like I had more of a life, before I was so locked in to one screen, one game, and mental stress. That I had trouble knowing what I truly value and what I really enjoy such as friends and family. My friends even enjoyed being around me better after quitting because they knew I as stressed and stressed people are not fun to be around. This made me enjoy my life so much better. Waking up in the morning no stress and animal jam to wake me up. Enjoying the sun and the nature admiring that the views where I live may not be there later in life. Going to bed with good confidence. So overall animal jam has taught me important lessons like after I learned that though things can be hard, you can let people can ruin your goals, or you can get up and try again. To wrap this up I love animal jam as a game and can't imagine any game that has changed my life in such ways! Wow this is so long I can't believe yo are still reading this! Anyway thank you for reading and check back soon for more posts!