Addictions

This week I have to write about addictions, specifically, my addictions. I’ve been addicted to many things along my life, but what has remained until the present days is my addiction for videogames. Everything started when I was seven years and arrived to Chile pokemon. I always was left in home alone, because my parents worked and I always was bored, never had pretty much to do, so I really liked to role, being someone with an excitant life, having adventures, fighting and wining.

Gradually I was more and more interested in playing and less interested in have friends in real life (although I never had too much friends). Then I became bored with pokemon and started to play strategy games, such as Age of Empires (In order to play this kind of games, when I was thirteen I had to learn some basic concepts about how to improve my computer) Certainly I learnt much about World History at this rate hahaha.

As I never had any problems at school, and my marks were always high, my parents didn’t notice I had a sort of “problem”.

When I was fifteen I knew I had a problem and didn’t play anything for almost one year. But I knew that the issue was to control the addiction and not just to run away, especially if wanted to have a friend sometime (?) so I decided to have certain times to play as a reward after to share time with real people (for example, here, at the university) although I still haven’t get used to this half life. Nevertheless I’ve met really good friends through online videogames, even my current boyfriend, and in real life they give me even more support than other people would do.