Most people do not get addicted to video games so much that it changes their life to the worse, sadly i did. This is my story.
I have been gaming since i was just a young boy who got his playstation one as a 5 year birthday present. Back then it was different i would go play in the street with the other kids we would play games together.
In 9th grade it became unhealthy. I would play on my computer all day, and far out in the night. I was hooked. I would start my computer in the day after coming back from school at 3pm and one or two friends would come online and play for a few hours, then someone else would come online as they left. I would just keep playing until no one were online any more. This went on until i was out of High School.
Then when i started at university this became a even worse problem. Now i did not have to show up at the lectures only on the exams, and the time that i was ment to use on reading and solving tasks i used on playing computer games. Because of this i faild to take part in social life at university as well, and since i moved 8 hours away from home my social life hit rock bottom. It was at the second year of university i understood that i needed to take action. At this point i was at the start of my 4th semester with 1/3rd of the passed classes that i should have. And i said to myself i don't pass the three classes that i am supposed to this year i would sell my pride and joy. When spring break came i only passed 2 out of 3 classes. Then one of my friends told me he was looking for a better computer, and i reluctently said i would sell it to him. I sold it to him dirt cheap just so i could get rid of it and i still thik it is the right choice. My online friends were furious at me for selling it so i told them i would buy one this christmas if there is a good sale.
I have now used all the money i have from that computer to go on a road trip from Chicago to Los Angeles and i dont see myself buying a gaming computer in any near future.
I will tell more about my life after gaming, and my adventures in later posts.
One of the places i visited this summer (not my photo though). Hopefully i will get my photos sorted soon.
