Someone I hardly know was seriously injured yesterday and it saddens me.
First, some explanation. The video game I occasionally write about, World Of Warcraft, is a ‘Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game’. Pay attention to the first three words, which mean millions of players worldwide play simultaneously in one world, both competing and co-operating with each other. As you could imagine, this leads to the creation of guilds, which are collections of players that often play together and help each other.
I am in a guild called Widowmakers, and the guild leader is a young woman in Singapore named Elly. Last night, while riding her scooter along the road, she was hit at speed by a bus and very seriously injured. I don’t know the exact details, but she has broken bones, internal injuries and has already had one brain surgery to stop bleeding in her brain. Her survival is apparently not certain.
I have never met Elly, and I likely never will. I know her only by her character’s name of Bummie. We chat frequently whilst playing, both about the game itself and about life outside the game. Bummie is a bit uncertain of her skills as Guild Leader (she shouldn’t be) and she often comes to me for wisdom and advice. She promoted me to ‘Council’ level in the guild (there are about 285 players in our guild), and she is one of the people I most enjoy playing with. I can tell by her actions and words whilst playing that she is a sincere and selfless person; and it saddened me to learn of her accident.
So here’s to Bummie/Elly. Pull through this! Get better soon!
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