Blog Prompt(Computer Gaming)

Once I was addicted to computer gaming(and maybe I still am), and that was the worst year of my life. It went like a blur and till now I still could not remember any significant events. On average, I spent 3-5 hours on the computer a day, and up to 12++ hours during the holidays. Surprised? But that's what really happened. Needless to say, my grades dropped, my eyesight went from bad to worst and I was further and further away from the people around me. That was the only year I had with my mathematics teacher that year and I had wasted the time I had to know him better. That dealt the most damage. Because of that, I lagged behind while others strived in algebra, and seeing them talk to my teacher like old friends now pains me in the heart. It makes me feel like I'm the odd one out, missing out something that they know but I don't. For school work, I had meagre grades. I talked less with my parents, spent little time with my brother and was generally being a self-exiled outcast in the house. To the pleas of my parents for me to abandon my computer just for a while and spend some time with them at the dinner table, I turned a deaf ear to them and played on. I didn't know if I lost weight, but I definitely ate less, drank less and spent less and less time outside the room with the computer. I don't know what came over me. The period of time when I changed from a hardcore gaming addict back to a normal student was/still is very fuzzy to me. Somehow, I realised my mistakes, looked back on my actions and the outcome and discovered that what I have done was very destructive to my life and then, I decided to change. The results were very significant, seeing that my results rose dramatically and more time was spent between me and my family members(mostly because I needed coaching for algebra). And from then on, computer games were not as interesting and tempting as before anymore.