April 15th, 2013
Today I want to express my thoughts on video
games. They are very entertaining, but very harmful too. They gets us addicted
and they can make us lose the perception of what is real and what is
fictitious. Sometimes this misperception of reality could lead gamers to death.
Nowadays gaming has reached a very high place in our daily living, to the point
that everyone has at least one kind of video game console in their house. We are
able to jump from the safety of our warm coach in middle of our room, to an
exotic world full of fantastic creatures, and being inside of a warrior from
other word. This seems to be very striking, and it is, I have to admit it, but
it is as vicious as smoking cigars.
I'm preety sure that this affects people who surround me, such as my family,my brothers and my friends. The other night, I stayed on John's house and we played "Prince of Persia: sands of time" all night long, and the next morning, when I arrove home, he texted me telling me that "when he dropped a sandwich after
playing this game, he ‘twitched’ his finger as he tried
to retrieve it with his console.” Then I thought that it had probably been related with last night. Here
we can clearly appreciate that one of my friends tried to “revert” time as the video game
he was recently playing, something impossible in our world but reachable in fantastic worlds. And there are lots of similar cases, where people try to use video game’s
tools in real life. Gamers get so addicted that they start to think that real
world is in video games, and they live in a fantasy, so they feel the necessity
to play games to “live” in their game. So, they get all the way around, and
reality for them is completely confused, and they don’t want to stop playing,
because they feel like they are in their real lives, and get so obsessed that
it leads to aggresivity, step aside from society, and in very extreme cases,but luckily the least of them, madness
and death. I'm afraid that someone I know could get so addicted that couldmake something wrong.
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