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RE: Is the Game Over?

in WORLD OF XPILAR29 days ago (edited)

I wasn't going to comment at first because I don't have much experience with video games. When I was a kid, there were these handheld game consoles that only people whose parents were allowed to go abroad (during the communist regime) could buy. I also remember being left to play Pac-Man on my mother's office computer when she took me with her to her workplace. But generally back then we didn't have much access to computers and there was no way to form any habit, interest or passion in me.
Rather, I wanted to say something about the first part of the post. Yes, I think the things we used to love change with time because life is a never-ending ever-changing and absolutely unpredictable flow. However, in the last few days I did an experiment and started practicing again something I did last time, let's say 4 years ago. Well, I think the feeling was the same. And I found that the favorite things and activities that were formed in the last, for example, 13 years of my life, have not changed for the time being. But that's maybe because I'm an adult person. From one age to another, things change easily and quickly - from childhood to adolescence and from adolescence to adulthood.
On the other hand, the other thing that I have noticed is that the things that worry me change in a few (less) years, i.e. problems and worries are somehow shorter-lived and easily changeable. They are different from hobbies and passions in this regard. And thank God 😌

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I am happy that you popped in despite your lack of experience (or interest?) in video games.

Well, one of my uncles used to live abroad. Whenever he visited us, he used to bring something interesting like those Nintendo hand-held consoles and the ones with cassettes that could be plugged into the TV. It was fun. And then came computers which changed the whole gaming world with CDs, DVDs, and then online games.

I have played Pac-Man a lot.

I might be giving the impression of having a childhood where I played games the whole day. But it wasn't like that. We had a computer at home but we (me and my siblings) were allowed only 30 minutes each in a day. We used to wait for those 30 minutes for the whole day. 😄


You must have felt elated having found the same feelings back. I wish I could have that too.

You are right - childhood, adulthood, and old age are three main phases of life. Everything changes when we move from one phase to another. Not just hobbies.

And yes sorrows never last. I believe it's in human nature to want to be healed, happy, and at peace.