I had never played computer games until about a week ago when someone showed me how to play one of the solitaire games. When I got onto my own computer and found the game on the internet, started playing it - I discovered how hours can go by as I would say to myself "I'll play it just one more time". Then at the end of the evening I would find myself trying to understand how all the time got wasted? Or was it wasted? Well, I could have been doing other things that would have been more productive and now I find myself insisting to myself that I must not spend any more time playing the game, because this activity might keep me from doing other important things. The important thing here is to realize that the game has some value (or am I rationalizing?) but there are other priorities in my life right now. So, that means that I have to either put time limit on the game-playing, or stop it completely. Because I know how the "one more game" reasoning progresses. Right now, it is just a potential "habit", not an addiction. But it would be better to attend to the other important matters of living.
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