Halo 3, an addiction?

My take on it.

Halo 3 has been the game that many have been addicted to for many years, I know this because I played it for little over 4 years. Since halo 2 came out, I was throwing my time away not thinking of the consequences of what I was doing, I was only 15 when i started. I now know that it was probably the biggest mistake I have done in all my 18 years of age.

So lets analyze what the game is for those of you that don't know what i am talking about. Halo 3 came as a result of the hit game by a company called Bungie. (Bungie.net) The game came out around the year 2000, it was Xbox based platform, and did not have Xbox Live function. The first addiction problems for me stared with Halo 2 Xbox Live, i was playing 5-8 hours a day, and my school grades demonstrated this. I was not the only one, I was just one of the 1.2 million gamers, world wide. The game was good, but what made it the best, was Xbox Live, it was just the right combination of things that many kids my age loved, guns, strategy and multi-player, Bungie said it once, the key to halo was the fact that you could talk to each other real time, and talk trash and get to team up and play out plans that took teamwork.

I remember that i would have so much fun playing, and that is part of the problem, most find it cool, and love the game, in part this is why it is so hard to stop playing, and because you always meet new people, in a sense it kinda lick facebook. Its just more addictive.

I believe that this is an addiction that can affect many ranging from all ages and gender, it is as if the game ends controlling your life, and you start forgetting how important other things are, it is a very difficult situation. As for people that are still playing I would say that the best thing for you to do is that slowly reduce your hours, and focus on other things lick school/work, or family and friends. I know now for a fact that my brain developed differently form what it was supposed to. As a result of this, I became a more visual and instant person, and it has been hard develop reading, and other non instant reward activities. Hopefully this will change your perspective of video games, and if you are a parent, then have patience, and try to help using intelligent means, like explanation or try to instigate other activites, the one thing that does not work, is trying to just shut the person from the video game, it will only create problems.

JPM

What is life?

What is life? 

Is it the moments or the thoughts, the ideas of the future or the memories of the past? When does the preparation end and the living begin? My life has been an overlooked, underworked complexity of situations that have similar outcomes. They are all a lie. The simple reasoning behind most, is not present in me, it does not exist. For the difference is clear, the reality is harsh and difficult. What am I supposed to do when I have failed at everything and don’t feel impelled to do anything? What is the point then, no thought, no ideas, no future? My answer is simple and equal, but an opposite reaction to life, move on to make the view that others see of me, normal, make it standard. Ending would be ludicrous; it would be weak, and simple. Lies fill an impossibility, they make you feel full when you are actually bare, they make others feel, what is not there. It is as if it were magic. Society marks the reasoning, you mark the decisions. I am proof of what society hates, yet society accepts and does not notice me, how can this be possible? Well, it comes from what we are, we believe in things that are false, things like religion, uniqueness and purpose. Religion has absolutely no unfeigned information and knowledge. It is a weak minds exit; it is, in simple English, a lie. Have you ever felt that you have a special gift, or that your idea is new, the thought at this very moment has never been thought before? There will never be a unique human, you are a millisecond in time, and your life is without a purpose. When you hold grasp of that idea you will unlock a new echelon of life, the life of a being that is at its full potential. Accepting the verity of life, will take you to a freedom few have felt, a real feeling without trepidation or despondency. I will forever be a liar that lives among the veracity of life, and overlooks the fictitious way of life that we all posses.

JPM

19.06.10

This is my inspiration.