Week 4

Video games ruined your life? No worries you have two extra lives.



Apparently a lot of people degrade video games because of the fact that video games damage people’s lives in many different ways. Such ways include, does not exercise thus get fat and lazy, not socialize with real, “real” people, but most serious of all, it leads you into an addiction. The scary word it is, addiction. This is defined in one of our readings, as act that people perform despite their desire to stop and cease. This is something that we do more than we expect to do and goes beyond the boundary line of our set goal. However, if you think about it, it is not only the problem cause deeply by playing games. This can come from everything around us and everyone can get it easily. As there is a saying that nothing goes as it is planned to be, something we expect and plan does not always happen as it was supposedly to happen.


I understand rather the statements and arguments about the health problems that can be caused by playing video games- literally, sitting down without being almost immobile (heavily exercising your index finger and wrist probably). And also, your eyes getting tired and your eye sight go below because of the ray coming from the computer screen. This makes more sense in “playing video games have negative effects on people’s lives.’ The term addiction does not match with playing video games. This is because addiction is something that when one is forced to stop or cease, the person becomes ill and psychologically unstable. With video games, though people will crazily want to play more when he is forced to stop playing, the person will not “chemically” become ill or sick or mad which will end up giving the real negative effect on them. This is something that human fall for, humans, because we are humans, are attracted to something and feels the great passion in one particular thing. This is same with being in a state of “love” to give you a simple example. You love, you want to love, it makes you happy so you want more love, and even though your lover is not infront of you or not in your reach you still think about the lover and you can still love.