My personal view on video game addiction
It’s sad that some people can’t maintain a balance between their hobby; computer games and their ordinary life with their partner, friends and jobs. But this isn’t something unique for video games as a hobby. I have friends who are compelled to finish a minimum of ten training sessions each week. They have to eat exactly 3250 kcal a day and the meals have to be served at specific times. This is not normal! But most people consider it more normal then to play video games 20 hours a week. Most people would consider a person who exercises ten times a week healthy.
Every year, people are killed or injured when they are doing what they love most, their hobbies. People crash with their motorbikes or get paralyzed when skiing down the Alps. Recently a young man died during soccer practise. But those deaths don’t make it to the front pages of newspapers. It’s healthy to play soccer and it’s healthy to go skiing in the Alps. It’s considered normal. But suddenly, a guy dies playing computer games and hell breaks loose. Every time something bad happens to a guy who plays videogames, if he dies, kills, takes hostage or thinks he’s a hobbit, the videogame is easy to blame. No one seems to notice that he’s probably a bananahead that would have freaked out even if he/she had never seen a videogame.
I’m not sure it is normal to get lost in your video games 20 hours each week, but it’s at least not worse than any other hobby.
It’s sad that some people can’t maintain a balance between their hobby; computer games and their ordinary life with their partner, friends and jobs. But this isn’t something unique for video games as a hobby. I have friends who are compelled to finish a minimum of ten training sessions each week. They have to eat exactly 3250 kcal a day and the meals have to be served at specific times. This is not normal! But most people consider it more normal then to play video games 20 hours a week. Most people would consider a person who exercises ten times a week healthy.
Every year, people are killed or injured when they are doing what they love most, their hobbies. People crash with their motorbikes or get paralyzed when skiing down the Alps. Recently a young man died during soccer practise. But those deaths don’t make it to the front pages of newspapers. It’s healthy to play soccer and it’s healthy to go skiing in the Alps. It’s considered normal. But suddenly, a guy dies playing computer games and hell breaks loose. Every time something bad happens to a guy who plays videogames, if he dies, kills, takes hostage or thinks he’s a hobbit, the videogame is easy to blame. No one seems to notice that he’s probably a bananahead that would have freaked out even if he/she had never seen a videogame.
I’m not sure it is normal to get lost in your video games 20 hours each week, but it’s at least not worse than any other hobby.
posted by Marcus blog at 2:24 PM
3 Comments:
Interesting view! I guess I am one of those who always been thinking that exercising is much better than playing video games. Though, your blog sort of changed my opinion. It maybe doesn´t matter whatthe hobby is, the important thing is to be able to combinate it with the rest of your life in a healthy way.
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Hello!
I like your comments, they are really interesting. I agree with most of your opinions. Though I think it is healthier to play soccer ten times a week than to sit in front of a computer playing games. Exercise is good and sedentary is not! But of course we need to strike a healthy balance, regardless of which hobby we chose. I think you are right when you say that those who become addicted to video games probably would have freaked out even without the games. Something must be wrong if one cannot tear loose from the computer screen, I do not think it is only because of the thrill of the game.
/Anna A
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