This is a post that I find hard to do. Yet, I know it needs to be done. Today would have been my Uncle's birthday if he were still alive today. He ended up passing away last year. I look back at the time I spent with him as a child, and I realize. That I owe a lot of who I am to him.
This isn't just for me though. This isn't just to get the views or to get everyones heart strings moving. This is for all the right reasons. I remember a time back before I really knew what Science Fiction was. Or before I knew the heart ache of lossing someone you love. Back when all life was really about was having fun.
On holidays my family would go to southern California to visit with the rest of the family. I loved going to see my mom's family. Just so I could spend hours doing nothing. I would end up sneaking away from the adults in the living room and off into the den my grandmother and grandfather had. I would always end up catching my Uncle either sleeping or watching an old VHS tape of some sort. (Now that I am older. I know he was only pretending to be asleep) I would run in and tackle him or sit next to him and watch movies with him. Some of my fondest memories of him were when we would just sit in the den and watch Star Trek. I honestly think that this was the begining of my love for Sci-Fi.
Over the years though I got older and my interests changed. Yet I still had a love for Sci-Fi. He and I would chat about all sorts of things. One Christmas we stayed at his house and he was talking to me about video games. I had played games on the NES and the SNES at this point. Yet he was talking about computer games. He even let me play a few. It was the first time I had ever played with a mouse and keyboard. I had no idea what I was doing. Yet I was winning and it felt good to run around and shoot Demons from hell. The game was a little title called DOOM. It was one of the first times I had ever touched a real computer game. Which changed the way I saw computers. (My parents were out with the rest of the family and he let me play. My mom would have never let me play it.) Yet there I was looking at graphics that made all the other games I had played before look like crap.
I was in awe of what was happening in my life and in video games. I was instantly attracted and engaged in these games. Which helped shape my future. He and I would discuss and talk about games off and on up until his death last year. Through his influences though my life has been shaped differently than it normally would have. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be interested in computers and technology. He got me interested in programming, Sci-Fi, computer gaming, the internet, WoW, and a ton of other things that I can't even remember right now.
So I have to say that you all should hold your loved ones close. Always willing to listen and learn when you are younger, because you may never have a chance to learn these things again. The little things can help shape your future in ways you will never understand.
Most of all I would like to thank my Uncle for helping make me the nerd I am today. R.I.P.
Uriel Locke
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