When I think back to the con I realize that I took a gamble of flying out-of-state to stay in a hotel room with the people I RP'd with for three days. Some moments were fun, but most of the time I was left wading through a con that I had no idea of what was there or where everything was (I'm very bad at directions).

The paid-time? Sure at that moment they were good, but I was a stupid highschooler/late teen's girl that thought RP was her life and couldn't live without those extra icons or the edit button. I totally believe in that spending extra money on yourself for happiness is good (my counselor even told me that), but it's just those two things that if I didn't do/go to them then I would be okay with it and might not be in the situation I'm in now.