What I will miss

The day I retire from CS...
...I will miss the life on the road
...I will miss being a part of a team
...I will miss the feeling from a clean headshot
...I will miss winning tournaments
...I will miss crashing out of tournaments only to go out to get wasted.
...I will miss the orange color
...I will miss Sichuan hotpot
...I will miss my friends in rival teams
...I will miss setting up my gear before a big game
...I will miss taking about back in the days infront of the younger guys in the team.
...I will miss the fear in our enemies eyes after a great map pick.
...I will miss all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hotels I have visited
...I will miss waking up with someone I dont know who it is.
...I will miss singing Karaoke in Asia
...I will miss the incredible feeling winning the last round of a final
...I will miss the time on the airport prior a flight to a remote destination
...I will miss the laughters with the team when one of us fails
...I will miss the bizzare rounds that sometimes happens in CS
...I will miss making a new friend in a foreign country.
...I will miss taking new players to Korean BBQ
...I will miss waking up in an hotel room wonder where I am.
...I will miss coming up with new tactics that works.
...I will miss the pride of being highest on the podium.
...I will miss signing autographs
...I will miss booth babes in Asia
...I will miss listening to music on flights
...I will miss our fans
...I will miss pranking players on the trips
...I will miss adding new countries to my list of visited places
...I will miss having beers with my team
...I will miss glock ecos attacking your bombspot
...I will miss promotional events for our sponsors
...I will miss struggling speaking Mandarin on our trips in China
...I will miss Gangnam Station
...I will miss eating too much food at McDonalds with my guys
...I will miss being picked up in the airport feeling super jetlagged
...I will miss getting upgraded to business class
...I will miss being lost in translation
...I will miss getting itineraries to my email
...I will miss calling hotel lobbies in Asia to sort us out with Western fastfood.
...I will miss sightseeing in between the games
...I will miss going out on the day of arrival to cure jetlag
...I will miss meeting my sponsors on the road
...I will miss playing 10 hours per day before a tournament
...I will miss picking up the AWP only to miss 3 easy shots
...I will miss reading ridiculous comments on forums
...I will miss crazy taxi rides in Asia
...I will miss forgetting prize checks in hotels
...I will miss having one too many drinks after a gold medal.
...I will miss the Chinese fans that greets us in the airport
...I will miss going to Starbucks abroad, even that I don´t drink coffee
...I will miss vending machines in USA
...I will miss everything.

Patrik "cArn" Sättermon