In the last 24 hours, the most anticipated app, Pokemon GO, has finally released in app stores. Thousands of hopeful trainers downloaded the app and started their Pokemon journey at last. The app that forced everyone to go outside just to throw a Poke Ball at a Pidgeotto.
Everyone is now catching different Pokemon and battling gym leaders. Everyone has become Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town.
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Everyone except me.
It's not as if I haven't tried playing the game. I did download it! However, because I have an iPad, it is more difficult for me to catch a Bulbasaur. Not only that, the app and its server keep closing, preventing my dream of becoming a Pokemon master. After many failed attempts to play the game, I accept defeat and sing, "I want to be the very best like no one ever was. But Pokemon GO wants me to go. I shall cry and ask why!"
But I always find an alternative.
While everyone is cruising through the town for a vulpix or defeating a gym leader in the middle of nowhere, I have done other activities that no Pokemon GO will provide me. As I wait patiently until I get back into my journey, I'll settle with Pokemon...
1. Stuffed animals.
2. Movies.
3. Bath towels I had since I was born.
4. 90s TV series.
5. Rebooted (Japanese) 90s TV series.
6. Gameboy games I haven't played since third grade.
7. Colosseum.
8. 90s and early 2000s movies.
9. Cassette tape (it's somewhere in the garage I swear!).
10. Soundtrack from Johto season with Brock's dedication to Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny because yes.
11. And that Jigglypuff song.
12. Oh, let's not forget its rap. Nobody forgets the rap, no matter how many new Pokemon are added.
13. Never-ending thought of if Pokemon is real before I go to bed.
14. I then remember it technically is, but as an app.
15. Reminder that no matter how much I re-install that app and open it, Pokemon wants me to go not outside...
16. But exclude from the opportunity to drop out of...
17. College and become what Ash Ketchum hasn't been able to 1999...
18. Master. A Pokemon Master.
19. It's not like I wanted this career since my brother defeated me on multiple Pokemon battles and if I use Pokemon GO I would show him that I'm the Pokemon Master now. Just saying.
20. Photographer. I remember playing that game before Pokemon GO became a phenomenon. I got to take thousand pictures of wild Pikachus, Charmenders, Squrittles, and Bulbasaurs without touching the screen. I guess that was a good alternative for me.
21. Comic books. At least I have them to ease my crumbled dream.
22. Wedding Rings. Perfect alternative-ish!
23. No, I will not drown my sorrows in a pit of nostalgia.
24. I will do it after I finish this article.
If you want to download the app instead of joining me, you can download Pokemon GO at the app store and Google Play for free!
