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The Price I Paid For Playing Video Games
It didn’t take me long to realize that video games were a giant waste of time in my life.
I started off with a Nintendo 64 and have been hooked into all kinds of games ever since.
World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Civilization, Age of Empires, Super Smash Brothers, Various Mario Parties, almost every Zelda game and Skyrim are only a few of my most played games, but there have been plenty with hundreds or thousands of hours sunk into them.
At the beginning, games were an amazing escape, but as I grew older and garnered more responsibilities I simply had less time for them.
I often found myself playing way too much as an excuse not to do the work that actually mattered.
Before I knew it it had come to a point where my own lack of success was directly related to the lack of time I spent at my business, which correlated very deeply with the amount of hours I played games.
Knowing this I tried to quit gaming.
To me it was either my success or my games and, objectively thinking about it, the success mattered much more.
But, since video games were such a huge part of my life I couldn’t fully let them go immediately and still tried to keep them in some way.
