It was way back when I was a teenager. It was the time when I got a PS3 and a game called Call of Duty Black Ops 1. If I recall, my mom got me this PS3 because I told her I wanted one after playing on one at a friend's house during a group assignment. Anyways getting this PS3 changed me a lot.
Before getting this PS3, I was a normal teenager that loved to play video games on his free time. After getting the PS3, I feel that it kind of pushed me towards a video game addiction which I didn't have before. I would end up spending a lot of time playing Call of Duty 1 on their multi-player mode or playing zombies.
This bad habit of spending too much time on video games really had a huge impact in my life at that time. Looking back, I'm not really sure how it consumed me. I used to be very passionate about sports especially soccer and tennis. I played a lot of tennis. I remember spending the whole summer and weekends at Broadstone Sports Club playing tennis. I gradually lost interest in tennis though after getting the PS3. I remember I would just try to play with my online friend Cold-Shoulder who was like way older than me but it was fun. We played and talked a lot of shit to kids playing the game with our headsets. Besides passion for sports, I lost a lot of time and I also felt that I got kind of annoyed and angered easily when I was playing which wasn't good because it made me rude to my mom sometimes.
The past is the past though. There's not really anything I can do to change it but looking back I do have a sense of regret. I wonder if back then I could've been a great tennis player. There was a time where I did think of trying to get to play at the pro level but it was only thoughts.
Not too long ago, I suddenly had the feeling to play tennis again so I found this social group through Facebook and joined their WhatsApp group. It's pretty chill because you can just drop in and play with people that like to play tennis. Everyone that I've met so far is friendly. I didn't play in a long time though so I totally suck now!
Anyways that's a wrap for this weekend. I shared a true story of a bad habit of playing too much videos games which cost me my passion for sports and a lot of time that I could've spent to do something more productive.
Hope you all have a great weekend!