10 The Name Of The Game! (1/2)

Grinding is a strategy in gaming whereby you repeat an easy action many times to build up wealth, power, abilities or status.

For example, a player who kills easy monsters to collect coins, items and experience would wait for them to resp.a.w.n to repeat the process.

The player would do this for long periods of time to gain wealth and power in the game world.

After gaining the knife skill, I am determined to max it out.

I became a machine, I would routinely wake up every day at the same time and do the same thing.

After waking up, my mom would help me put on my little chef uniform.

It took some effort to get my parents to buy me an entire wardrobe of it; This allowed me to wear one every day of the week.

The 15% bonus experience too cooking-related skills were too good to give up.

Once I finished getting dressed, my mom would then carry me downstairs and prepare breakfast.

After finis.h.i.+ng breakfast, I would get placed in my playpen where I would start grinding.

I would move toward my chef's play kitchen and straighten my back before placing down the cutting board on the counter s.p.a.ce and gathered my knife and ingredient.

I kept using the play-doh as a replacement ingredient.

I would practice my cutting techniques and reform the play-doh, just to rinse and repeat.

The experience gained was small but never-ending.

My knife skill was leveling at a steady pace.

I would switch my hands during practice to train them hoping to become ambidextrous.

I believed two hands were better than one.

It was also a safety precaution; This would allow me to continue working if I ever lose function in one of my hands.

I realized early on that the play-doh was game-breaking.

Many issues would have occurred while using real ingredients.

You could only cut an ingredient so many times before it becomes minced.

You can't reform and reuse real ingredients like play-doh.

It would have cost an arm and a leg to grind my skill to the maximum level.

I doubt my parents would let me waste real ingredients practicing.

My grinding journey continued for months on end.

Leveling began to slow, and I started to seek new knowledge hoping it would help raise my skill level faster.

I asked my parents if they knew any knife techniques; Unfortunately, they only knew the basics.

Therefore, I asked them to buy a few books on knife skills.

They gave me a weird look.

After a little begging, they purchased the books for me.

I often read the books together with them; it was an activity we did together.

I insisted they read it to me as a bedtime story.

I was trying to memorize and a.s.similate the knowledge and my parents were kind and didn't mind fulfilling my weird requests.