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Originally Posted by Mahewa  Hi All,
It is amazing to see how many boys and girls that are hooked on games and as most of you already stated you came out of it with a better knowledge.
I just wanted to remind you that sometimes out of your greatest struggle you can get your biggest rewards. What I mean is that you have got a first hand experience of this addiction that sucked the energy out of your life but you managed to clear the fog and get out of it.
Use this experience to help other game addicted people to wake up and get free of it as well. You will know better than anyone else what it means and everyone will relay to your experience.
Write books or ebooks about it, make seminars, post on blogs etc. Start helping people and you soon have a new job that can be extremely profitable. What better can you do than helping people and help yourself at the same time.  |
I actually wasn't computer game addicted. I've never quite gotten that into computer games. I've enjoyed *working* on them, and may in the future as an artist, but that's a very different mental process for me (I've worked in games in the past, in a different capacity). Seeing something I put so much energy into, come to life... now that's cool.
What I played were pencil & paper tabletop role playing games, such as Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and the addiction wasn't to any one game. It was to a whole lifestyle that revolved around fantasy life - fantasy and science fiction fandom, conventions, TV shows, costuming, etc.
Basically, a world that sucked up my creative energy, and where my visual art and writing interests will never see the light of day. Many of the people in that world are incredibly talented and bright, but the talent and intelligence stays *locked in that world*.
What was particularly horrifying is the total lack of interest in fitness or PD among many "geeks", and tendency to want to spend one's money on "geeky" things rather than in any form of life advancement.
I think I'm still a *little* into this stuff, but the thing is, I don't know how "little" you can be into it and still connect with those people. I haven't yet met many people who are just a *little* geeky.