I don’t do video games. I don’t buy them. The reason is simple. I know the danger of addiction of playing games.
Some people who love playing video games might get offended by reading my article. Please know that my intention is simply to share my feeling and experiences, not to offend anybody.
When I was a university student, my boyfriend-at-that-time gifted me a Nintendo Family Computer. He taught me how to play video games. I was into them. I played Super Mario Bros., Baseball, Golf, Mahjong, and Tetris. Especially I was into roll playing games of Mother, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Quest.
Once I started, I would reduce my time on eating, going to bathroom, and sleeping. I even skipped going to the university just to continue the games.
After devoting my time on doing nothing but games for several months in a row, I realized I had wasted my precious time and energy. Then I completely quit doing them.
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Two decade later, the addiction came back to me easily.
It was about two years ago, my daughter started using my iPad. I let her download some free games. I told her not to play the game for a long time. She has been doing pretty well. She plays the game for a short period time and moves on to something else such as draining pictures or reading books.
Unlike my daughter, I had fallen into the trap.
One of the games she downloaded was a Pet training game. I helped my daughter to read Japanese instruction and explanation at the beginning. Eventually she got bored from the game and completely forgot about it. I started taking care of the character. Then, without knowing, I started taking care of it every day.
I don’t know why it was today, but today, I strongly felt I should stop doing this game. I had spent lots of my time and energy on this game. After I noticed to my game friends of my quitting the game, I felt relieved.
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