When I bought this thing months ago, I told myself I can’t take care of a Tamagotchi until I can take care of myself.
That’s something I’m holding myself to. I need to stabilize and get everything flowing smoothly before I open that digital blob to feed it a square and clean up four pixels of poo.
My cat is fine too.
I know it’s really silly, but I’m using it symbolically. I won’t deliberately add on more stress if I can’t handle the things going on in my current life. And it baffles me when I see people making wild decisions without considering the cost of it over the course of the next few months or years. Things like marriage and buying houses and having children and then more children add extensive costs to life, and life doesn’t always give us what we want.
I hear people talking about childcare costs, and we’re at the point where it’s sometimes more affordable for a parent to leave their job so they don’t have to pay for day care and babysitters. And then the NFT’s!
Don’t bite off more than you can chew. For me, a cat and a digital pet is more than enough.