Actually, it’s not a story, it’s my life. Everyone sets some goals in his/her life to be achieved. Only a few will be successful while most of them try to achieve their goals, but there is another category who won’t even try to achieve their goals and I fall into that category.
Why didn’t I try to achieve them? This is because I didn’t think of them as I play games more than 12 hours a day and spare the rest for attending classes, eating and sleeping. This is my routine since my 1st year 2nd semester. I tried to change it many times, but I am an addictive gamer. I started playing AOE in that semester and quickly moved to CS 1.6, the next semester and dotA, the last three semesters. When coming to single player games, I like RPGs. I played Oblivion 5 times, Diablo-2 8 times, Fable 4 times and Titans Quest once and many small games.
Where and When we play these games? As they are multi-player games, it is not only me, there are many other gamers who play with me. We play these games in labs and in free times i.e., between two classes, after dinner in the night etc.
Now, if I turn back and check out what my life is at IIIT, I can’t find anything else except games in my life and very minute part of it goes to studies as I don’t study unless there are exams, the next day and that too if I’m interested in that. This is what I think of gaming.
Advantages of Gaming:
1) Team work: This is the one which every person should have.
2) Concentration: Only certain games like CS helps to improve this, i.e., aiming but it depends on practice too.
Disadvantages of Gaming:
1) Frustration: This one is most common among all the gamers. There is a saying in Telugu that: “Your frustration is your enemy”.
2) Lazy: Once you started getting addicted to games, this will certainly increase day by day. I think all of you know the effects of laziness. Right now, I can think of these 2 and there are few small disadvantages like you sleep more.
Gaming is not the only source of Team work and Concentration. For Team work, you can do projects with your batch mates and there are various ways to improve your concentration.
So, why do most of us want to play games? The most probable reason is “To win”. What do we get, if we win? : It gives some pleasure. What do we get, if we loose? : It disheartens us. What is it, if we win/loose?: We waste at least half of its time thinking about our role in making our team win/loose. So, we are not only wasting time in playing games, but also thinking about it. I am not saying,”NO” to games, but they shouldn’t be part of your life at your critical points. At such situations, playing games can be compensated by time management which I can see in some of my friends.
Finally: “ADDICTIVE GAMING IS HARMFUL TO YOUR LIFE UNLESS GAMING IS YOUR PROFESSION”.
