User blog:3primetime3/Platinum badge is here :D

Heyy everyone!

OH MAN, I had a ton of internet connection problems today, but it looks like I made it. After failing at 286 (or 236 after failing 222) last time, I never thought I was going to make it again XD. I was almost the third to reach this milestone after Lefty8899! And it was gone, all the way back at one. The first time I stared at my edit counter having it show 1/365 really hurt. Really? All due to the fact that UTC time did not sync up with PST time. I edited every day here, but it didn't register in the system.

I never was actually determined to get the platinum badge again after that. Right after I was happy enough with the Divine 200-day badge. That badge looked pretty cool already. However, during spring break, I realized that I was already at 295. It wasn't a long way until then. I set a schedule to edit at four times a day, in the early morning before I go to school, at school for three hours, after school for two hours, and before I went to bed for an hour. I didn't want to miss a day. Therefore, if you saw me editing much more than before, it was probably because I needed to relax from the hardships of real life. Editing has always been my relaxing point of the day. After coming home from 4 AP classes (Americans will know what that means) and Cross Country, I was always sore, tired, and sometimes down - well, most of the time. I even faced an emotional roller coaster in my tenth grade year. It wasn't a fun ride. But this damn stupid wiki counter was my seat belt - it kept me from falling off the cart. And now I'm here, at the end of the ride, and I'm glad I was able to go through the hard times. What a relief!

I literally have a silver lining now, and the platinum badge is more than 250 points, it's a journal of my experiences from 2015-2016. XD

Thank you guys!

-Primetime (talk) 04:52, July 10, 2016 (UTC)