Nothing At All or The Gaming Addiction - It's All Just Fiction.

Okay, so maybe the second part of the title was a slight exaggeration, but it rhymed and sounded cool so I'll just go with that anyway.

This week's entry about what's been happening in my life is going to be short. This is due to the fact that I've had a week off from school. I know it really doesn't make sense, seeing how a week off school should generally result in going on a trip somewhere or at least doing something of interest. But I've done nothing at all. Now this probably makes me look like one of the most boring persons in the world (perhaps I am?), but I've always used short mid-term breaks like these to take some (hopefully) well deserved rest. A rest I definately need seeing how I once again have two tests in the upcoming week. So my week has basically consisted of general slacking, sleeping long and gaming. So, yeah, let's move on!



Gaming addiction, that's a word you hear quite often nowadays. We've all read about the young teenagers who waste their lives sitting in front of their computers, skipping school and neglecting their friends. And the one who gets to take the blame for all of this is gaming, and I don't think that's exactly true. Now, I can't deny the fact that there are people who play too much games, it is an obvious fact that these people exist. However, what I can say is that I do not think that gaming itself is the reason for this. Games are a great way to let your imagination spread it wings. In school you might be the tiny little kid, picked on by everybody, but inside a game you could be a mighty warrior, saviour of the weak and slayer of evil. So the reason why people let gaming take over their lives possibly lies outside of it. Be it problems with school or other things. Games are just the place where people escape to not have to deal with their own reality. Add to this the fact that a lot of parents are "afraid" of games and who's closest contact to games are when they tell their kids to go do something else, instead of actually involving themselves in their children's gaming, something that would help ease the tension many children feel towards their own parents when it comes to gaming.
So the villain is not gaming in this case, it could be anything, and I think most parents would rather have their children play games than doing drugs.


So yet again I blame the parents for their children's troubles with the gaming world, which I suppose is a bit unfair. Of course the children need to be able to take responsibility for their own lives, they can not simply rely on their parents to do everything for them. I wish more parents would dare to take interest in their children's gaming activites. As an example, this is something that my parents have always done, and who knows, one day they might even become gamers themselves (with some practice, I'm sure they would do great!). So to all you parents out there (not that I think any other parents reads this anyway), approach your kids, take interest, it will turn out for the better, trust me on that.
And instead of trying to stop them playing games too much, try to find out what makes them skip school, since that is the real problem. Solve that, and you have the gaming problem solved as well.