A revelation

While I was in Austin, my family and I were looking at dorms in UT. While my sisters and I waited for my parents to go to the restroom, my sisters asked me one question.

"If you could take back all the times that you played video games, would you do it?"

I didn't know what to say. Video games were fun! but they take so much of your life away.
So I paused for a long time and changed the subject.

"Oh hey look! The U.S. Army Reserve! So cool!"

"Answer the question, Loren!"

Then our parents came and we continued looking through the dorms. I never answered their question...

But now I found it. The answer is...

"Yes."

I looked back and noticed that I missed so many things while I was playing video games. Like going out with friends, doing my homework, go to events, and get sleep! When you do nothing, but video games, you lose an opportunity to do something fun or productive. It may be fun, but after you beat it, you ask yourself, "What did I accomplish?" NOTHING!

It's like in some games, I get all the upgrades and all the super moves or whatever. It takes at least 50 hours to get all of these things. Then once I've obtained it, there is nothing else I can get. I have everything. No more! Then I tell myself, "Wow, why did I go through all this? That was a big waste of my time!"(Final Fantasy VII)

This may sound weird, but it reminds me of Wall-E. Wall-E had a personality and had a curiosity for the items he collected. He had a personality and didn't live such a lonely life when he met EVE. That's what I think everyone should be.
Whereas normal robots just do their job and have no personality. They're cut off from the outside world and live in a bubble. That's what I used to be. A Video Game Robot (VGR). Special abilities: Video games. That's not very impressive. Just playin' games and decline an opportunity to play game.

I just thought of this cause my friend has been doing this. He doesn't hang out with us because he wants to play computer games instead. Any free time that he has goes into watching anime or playing games online. It was like me back then. Now I realized how much of a bum I was and how stupid I must have looked. Video games really are drugs.

But they still heavily influenced me. I love the mascots (Mario, Link). and Nintendo's music. I really appreciate Shigeru Miyamoto. Nintendo is my childhood.

Now I am older. I've decided that games cannot be a part of my life every time. Time to move on and be a more responsible person. I will play less games and more...connecting with people.

One of my New Year's Resolutions is:
Don't play too much games (don't get addicted to games) and
Meet New people and friends.
...and of course study hard