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Well, my dad is officially quite mad at me. I'm part frustrated, part annoyed, and part amused. He is mad at me because he thinks I play too many video games. in reality, I barely play video games now and I only find them mildly amusing. When I do play them, I'm usually stressed out because he gets REALLY mad when I actually play them, so I never feel comfortable with them anymore. The problem is that he categorizes EVERYTHING that ISN'T (yes, this is one of those crazy generalizations) school work or study as a video game. Browsing the web = video games. Playing music on my MIDI keyboard = video games. Posting philosophical ideas on a forum = video game. Heck, cleaning up my computer's desktop = me playing video games. (He really has told me to stop playing video games while I was cleaning my computer desktop up.)
Oh, and did I mention that he thinks video games are a mindless, passive waste of time that simply makes your brain rot? Yep. Anything I do on the computer besides work is just that according to him. Anything else that I do is simply some sort of "side-hobby". According to him, I'm not really interested in life. All I care about is video games! I have no direction. I'm just a lazy, worthless video-game-obsessed-person.
Anyway... What do you think about this? Any tips? Just note that my dad is the type who acts without fully thinking things out, then usually covers up his mistakes with either...
A) I'm your father. I'm right, you're wrong.
B) Some invalid argument that you agree with anyway...
...Which isn't necessarily bad, but it makes it hard to argue or attempt to argue with him.
Also, I do realize that he is wiser than I am. I realize that I am partially wrong, but I also believe that I am partially right. There is NO WAY I'm as obsessed with video games as he says I am. I get excited about a game, play it for a few hours, get bored, uninstall it, and continue on. This only happens two or three times a month, and it might start happening less often due to the lack of exciting titles. I never really got into many games... Maybe four in total... Now I really don't get into them. I don't enjoy talking about video games with other people because I think that is a waste of time, unless something about the game actually relates to real life in some important way or if talking about it wil let my creative side flourish. It is fun to brain storm complex and crazy combinations for role-playing games, you know.
Okay, I'm done here. I'm going to go hide in my little corner and play some video games like a mindless, obsessed zombie who lacks brains. (Zombies like brains, don't they? I guess I'll be a unique zombie.)
P.S. I'm actually going to go change my signature so that people might read this and help me out or bash me or something! Anything better than trying to play a video game right now or doing more home work. I mean... All I had today was a reflection essay (300+ words), a revision of a letter in Spanish (200-300 words), a summary of Rip Van Winkle (100+ words), Biology homework (one page), History homework (four pages, size 11, Times New Roman, outline form), math corrections, piano lessons, and stress. I totally feel like going back to homework now!
 Mac2492 · Thu May 17, 2007 @ 06:03am · 0 Comments |
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