ILoveBirds

I have decided to stop playing video games because it has ruined my life. My video gaming addiction has been occurring for around 8 years already. Because of gaming too much and not wanting to stop, I have procrastinated almost all the time in my studies to the last week before exams and not focusing on my studies. This caused my grades to be bad. I know I could have gotten A's for my subjects because I know I can understand concepts well and memorise quite well. I have the perseverance and not giving up to failure attitude and was hard working when I did actually study but because I kept playing my video games to try to get good at them, I did not study much and ended up with those bad grades. My GPA in my polytechnic was only 2.8 because I procrastinated a lot. I could have obtained 3.5+ if I did not have this gaming addiction. I know I was that capable even though the course in the polytechnic was not that interesting to me. Even trying to get consistent and studying hard in something I like by myself, which is software development, is hard because I keep wasting time on these nonsense video games. The video games that I like were also FPS PvP games so often I need time and focus on those games. These games made me treat my parents horribly because they always want me to do other work like housework besides gaming. So I tend to get so frustrated and sometime shout at them because I was on that winning team or winning streak and I had to leave the game. I realised now how horrible that is. So I am deciding to go off entirely from video games. No excuses. Not even the excuse of wanting to be really good at the game because I know that will take very very long hours that are better spent on something more beneficial in my life. I have relapsed in the past but now I do not want to relapse again. I have decided to find replacements for video games that will give me the same feeling of happiness and accomplishment. As replacements, I would be learning drawing and also software development. Software development is also something I love and want to get a future job in. I also exercise to be more fit and a stronger person. I want to be the best version of myself. So I know I have to sacrifice video games. I may be adding/removing replacements for video games but I will not want play video games at all. I will keep track of my progress.