Glad to hear you're not a "geek" anymore, lol!
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most would rather RPG about fantastic places than actually travel.
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Ugh. My brother was like that last time I checked. He is two years older than me. When I was about to go to college in D.C. (we're from Texas), my mom said she'd drive me up there, but only if he went with us. He was just like, "Why would I want to go to D.C.?" (a place he'd never been; we never traveled places due to money constraints) He was really into games at the time. I think he still plays them, but he seems to finally have started to consider that games might actually be a waste of time (judging by the fact that he posted an article criticizing the addictiveness of games on Facebook).
When I was in middle school, my bro bought this MMORPG game that he, a friend, and I all started playing. We were all immediately obsessed with it. I personally had an online friend I really liked outside the game, and after a few months in the game I one time found myself telling her I wasn't on IM anymore to chat because I was always playing this game. So I acknowledged how it had taken over my life, and also the fact that I kind of hated the game because all the people in it were a bunch of jerks who tried to kill your character and frustrate all your attempts to achieve anything - then I quit. I was like, "No more games. Period."
But having an addictive personality, sometimes I did end up playing other online games, like a couple of text-based ones. I didn't become as obsessed with those ones. But I still hated that I played them... I just had no self-control. However, ever since the 8th grade game craze ended, I couldn't even find card games entertaining when that became a fad... I can't stand games anymore. I did get really sucked into a game one last time when I went back to Texas two years ago, and it was a completely miserable summer. I wanted to program a pedagogic game, but I didn't play any games, so I tried to study them to get ideas - terrible, terrible idea. The game thing will never happen again - I've grown too much and found my true passion in life, and that sort of thing disgusts me far too much. I never play games when people ask me to - board games, card games, anything. And I hate television.
I'm glad to be able to say with confidence that I will never succumb to that level of mindlessness again. I even hate books if I am not learning anything from them, but I am obsessed with reading GOOD books. I have a long, long, ever-growing list of them, and I love it. My housemates all just re-read Harry Potter for their summer reading, though they are intelligent, well-educated people who live their passions - I, for one, wouldn't get through Harry Potter knowing what good books I was putting off. I actually consider myself a "geek"
now, never when I played computer games.