My love of video games

The title to the blog basically says it all.  I love video games more than anything else in the world.  Many people always come up with the very same question whenever I say that comment.  Why?  Why do I love video games so much?  Whats so fun about sitting in front of a box with a thingy mu-jig in your hand seemingly doing absolutely nothing, but staring at the box, even for hours at a time.  So I usually smile at them and ask them the same exact question.  So here is what I am going to do, I am going to explain my love for video games through several random posts hoping that others will finally come to realize that my love for video games is not an illness, that I have some sort of disorder, that video games are bad for children, or even that I need to go out and get a life.

Go do something besides sit in front of the TV for a change.  Play outside, every other kid your age is out there playing football and soccer, why don't you go join them?  I really wish you wouldn't sit it front of the TV all day long.  If all you do is sit in front of the TV playing video games you'll become a couch potato.  Get off your butt and go exercise.  Is your homework done yet, you can't play until its done.  Your still in front of that TV?  I you have heard at least one of these similar expressions from your mom or dad then you must've heard a thousand more.  Parents just do not understand i say, why we play video games for hours on end like we do.  We enjoy it mommy and daddy.  Why do you work on cars dad?  Why do you watch QVC mommy?  Why do you garden and play in the dirt mommy? Why do you like to collect trains daddy?  Wouldn't it be great that every time they asked us why we like playing video games we could ask them the exact same question just about something that they do constantly.  Saying the same word over and over again.  Why do they do that all the time?  If they were honest with us and weren't trying so hard to stop us from doing what we find comfortable and can relax by doing.  They might understand better why we play video games so much, instead of wasting there time and effort to get us to stop. 

The bad news is, I don't speak to my mom anymore or any of my family for that matter.  Why, u ask.  Well, because I love video games!  Twenty-two years old and I am still playing.  My mother tried so hard and punished me so much for playing video games that it drove me away from my family.  I'm very serious, I haven't spoken to my mom since I was 17 years old, and just over the fact that we disagreed over me playing video games.  Now I 'm not saying she was wrong in her attempt to try and get me to do other things in my life.  But did she have to be so adamant about it, and discipline me to the point that now later in life as I'm now going to college to create video games and working on computers to better them.  Maybe parents and kids will look at this blog and strengthen there bonds.  Maybe they will both come to realize that video games can and cannot be an obsession.  All I can say is that as I blog along I'm going to try to explain the best I can about why I love video games.  Kids may start opening up and talking to there parents about games.  Parents may see that video games are not evil and out to hurt there kids because in the long one, like me, parents and children need each other in more ways than one.