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Haven’t had time to post in the past few days. Not much to report, I’ve just been working and getting more into trading. I’m going to try and have more enthusiasm for my job. I realized (well, realized again) the power of mindset and how you think, so I’m gonna think more positively about my job and have a better mindset about it. I‘ll do the same with trading and see how it impacts my results. I started an audiobook about technical analysis as it pertains to trading while at work; I’m looking forward to getting into it when I have some time. I also bought a new notebook that I’m calling my “trading book”: I’ll use it to record all my trades (even simulated trades) and take notes on trading books and videos. I want it to be my resource for all things trading related. It’s also pertinent to an old habit I want to pick back up, which is carrying a notebook around. I used to carry a notebook wherever I went, for taking notes on books I was reading and for daily affirmations, as well as just for recording things I thought were important enough to write down. It was a beneficial habit that I want to adopt again. Anyway, just wanted to post a quick update. I have to be up early tomorrow morning for a 12-hour shift, so I’ll be needing to bed. Good night

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I relapsed again. Unstructured free time plus a lack of viable replacement activities to pass the time. Relapsing really doesn't get to me anymore; it happens, life goes on. Anyway, I'm trying a "new" approach this time (I put new in quotations because I've tried it before in the past, but I wanted to give it another shot). @Max mentioned in his journal that he's trying a dopamine detox, and I wanted to give it a try as well. I've done a one-day dopamine detox once before, and I really enjoyed it, so I figured I'd give it another go, just with a different spin on it. I'm cutting out all forms of quick-fix entertainment, including social media, porn, and most notably, YouTube. YouTube is the one thing I always run to when I'm bored, so I figured cutting it out would reap some huge benefits. The idea behind cutting these things out is to 1) boost productivity, but 2) and more importantly, figure out what I want to be spending my time doing. I've been feeling some entrepreneurial drive recently, and now is as good a time as ever to capitalize on it. But first, I need to figure out exactly what I need to be doing. I've looked into different small businesses/side hustles I can try, so now I guess it's time to just double down on starting one. Outside of that, I learned that I just default to watching anime when I'm not watching YouTube. I actually want to watch more anime, so this doesn't concern me as much, but there's definitely better uses of my time. Today was actually the first day of my dopamine detox experiment; I deleted all social media and YouTube off my phone and pretty much went without them until I went in to work. I spent that time reading a book that my former schoolmate published, and I watched an anime movie I've been meaning to watch for a while. It was a slow-paced, enjoyable morning, and I'm hoping to replicate that kind of vibe throughout my dopamine detox. As for how long I want it to last, I want this to be a long-term change. I want to pretty much go without these quick-fix entertainment sources for the foreseeable future, and see how I manage without them. Let's see how it goes!

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10 hours ago, Paul A. said:

I relapsed again. Unstructured free time plus a lack of viable replacement activities to pass the time. Relapsing really doesn't get to me anymore; it happens, life goes on. Anyway, I'm trying a "new" approach this time (I put new in quotations because I've tried it before in the past, but I wanted to give it another shot). @Max mentioned in his journal that he's trying a dopamine detox, and I wanted to give it a try as well. I've done a one-day dopamine detox once before, and I really enjoyed it, so I figured I'd give it another go, just with a different spin on it. I'm cutting out all forms of quick-fix entertainment, including social media, porn, and most notably, YouTube. YouTube is the one thing I always run to when I'm bored, so I figured cutting it out would reap some huge benefits. The idea behind cutting these things out is to 1) boost productivity, but 2) and more importantly, figure out what I want to be spending my time doing. I've been feeling some entrepreneurial drive recently, and now is as good a time as ever to capitalize on it. But first, I need to figure out exactly what I need to be doing. I've looked into different small businesses/side hustles I can try, so now I guess it's time to just double down on starting one. Outside of that, I learned that I just default to watching anime when I'm not watching YouTube. I actually want to watch more anime, so this doesn't concern me as much, but there's definitely better uses of my time. Today was actually the first day of my dopamine detox experiment; I deleted all social media and YouTube off my phone and pretty much went without them until I went in to work. I spent that time reading a book that my former schoolmate published, and I watched an anime movie I've been meaning to watch for a while. It was a slow-paced, enjoyable morning, and I'm hoping to replicate that kind of vibe throughout my dopamine detox. As for how long I want it to last, I want this to be a long-term change. I want to pretty much go without these quick-fix entertainment sources for the foreseeable future, and see how I manage without them. Let's see how it goes!

That's a great idea 😊 I've been on an almost permanent detox from social media since around April and it makes a huge difference - over time you'll really start to notice how free you feel. It's also quite nice to feel more "grounded" and in the real world - good luck 😊

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10 hours ago, Paul A. said:

I relapsed again. Unstructured free time plus a lack of viable replacement activities to pass the time. Relapsing really doesn't get to me anymore; it happens, life goes on. Anyway, I'm trying a "new" approach this time (I put new in quotations because I've tried it before in the past, but I wanted to give it another shot). @Max mentioned in his journal that he's trying a dopamine detox, and I wanted to give it a try as well. I've done a one-day dopamine detox once before, and I really enjoyed it, so I figured I'd give it another go, just with a different spin on it. I'm cutting out all forms of quick-fix entertainment, including social media, porn, and most notably, YouTube. YouTube is the one thing I always run to when I'm bored, so I figured cutting it out would reap some huge benefits. The idea behind cutting these things out is to 1) boost productivity, but 2) and more importantly, figure out what I want to be spending my time doing. I've been feeling some entrepreneurial drive recently, and now is as good a time as ever to capitalize on it. But first, I need to figure out exactly what I need to be doing. I've looked into different small businesses/side hustles I can try, so now I guess it's time to just double down on starting one. Outside of that, I learned that I just default to watching anime when I'm not watching YouTube. I actually want to watch more anime, so this doesn't concern me as much, but there's definitely better uses of my time. Today was actually the first day of my dopamine detox experiment; I deleted all social media and YouTube off my phone and pretty much went without them until I went in to work. I spent that time reading a book that my former schoolmate published, and I watched an anime movie I've been meaning to watch for a while. It was a slow-paced, enjoyable morning, and I'm hoping to replicate that kind of vibe throughout my dopamine detox. As for how long I want it to last, I want this to be a long-term change. I want to pretty much go without these quick-fix entertainment sources for the foreseeable future, and see how I manage without them. Let's see how it goes!

Yeah.

You got this and you'll figure it out on how to avoid relapsing.

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I’m starting to explore my interests again. Without the distractions of social media and YouTube, I have more time to think about what I want to spend my time doing. I’m considering getting back into computer programming, but I’m facing the same problem I initially had when I first discovered it, which is the sheer amount of resources available. There’s so many different languages I can learn and so many career paths I can take, and it’s all so overwhelming. It’s discouraging me from taking action at all. Furthermore, I don’t want to fall into the same cycle of cultivating interest in an activity just to lose interest rapidly. It’s happened with computer programming, game development, and now it’s even happening with forex trading. I’m really not sure how to go about addressing this chronic inability to commit to anything. Either way, I’m kind of at a standstill. I watched a video about an Indian holy woman, which rekindled my interest in Eastern spirituality. Only issue is, I don’t know how to go about pursuing this interest in a practical way. All I can really do is consume more content about the subject, which won’t do me any good. If I’m going to kick gaming for good, I need an activity that ticks all the boxes that gaming did, and mindlessly consuming content about a subject won’t do that, no matter how interested in the subject I may be. I’m not sure how to move forward from here.

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If it's easy for you to pick up a new hobby, it might be worthwhile to start with something that is "universally" useful. It could be going for walks, exercising, reading a book, volunteering or whatever. I noticed everything most of the hobbies you want to try require phone or computer. That makes it very easy to just switch to YT or watching series whenever you want, which is probably something you don't want long-term.

I also realized that it's better for me to be good at a few things, rather than perfect at one. You don't need to be the best programmer in your town or the king of the salespeople. Just see if what you do makes sense and/or if you enjoy it and go from there. I don't think that it matters a lot whether you can monetize it or not at this point.

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On 10/14/2022 at 3:32 AM, Ikar said:

I don't think that it matters a lot whether you can monetize it or not at this point.

This is helpful. I tend to get obsessed with monetizing every hobby I pick up, and it sucks the fun right out of it. So moving forward I’ll try to get into activities just to enjoy them, rather than to monetize them in the future. Thanks for your input

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3 hours ago, Paul A. said:

This is helpful. I tend to get obsessed with monetizing every hobby I pick up, and it sucks the fun right out of it. So moving forward I’ll try to get into activities just to enjoy them, rather than to monetize them in the future. Thanks for your input

That's also part of it, although I am not sure if I put the idea forward correctly. The main thing for me is to spend the time in a meaningful way, both work and free. You don't seem to have that now. It's okay if it turns out the hobbies you decided to try suck in the end and you can move on from them. The same goes for the job, but the last time I quit my job, without having an idea and a concrete plan on how to replace it, was no less horrible than working said job. Having a job means money, structure, social connections and other good things. True unemployment is really taxing on the psyche.

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I want to start spending a lot more time outside. @Ikar mentioned how most of the hobbies I try either require a phone or a computer, which I never really thought about before. It made me realize how much I limit myself by staying indoors. Most of the hobbies I look into require Internet access, such as computer programming and forex trading, for example. And for whatever reason, I have a hard time spending significant amounts of times engaged in either of these activities. As such, I figured I might as well switch gears and try heading outside for a change. I remember when I was younger, I would spend hours at a time playing basketball with my friends after school. I want to try and replicate this now that I’m older. When I’m looking at hobbies, my main concern is whether I can spend long amounts of time engaged in them, the same way I could spend hours at a time gaming. I have a lot of free time on my hands when I’m not at work, and it’s easy to get bored when I don’t purposefully fill that time with meaningful activities. And I’ve realized that it’s hard to find any indoors activities that fill up a lot of time apart from gaming. As such, I want to focus on outdoors activities. As well, I think spending more time outdoors will be better for my health, because spending time outdoors almost always means you’re engaged in some kind of physical activity. So, my motivation for getting outdoors is actually twofold. 1. To avoid being indoors and bored and 2. To improve my health. Unfortunately, I won’t really get a chance to get outside until Monday because I’m working all weekend. But I’m still looking forward to getting outside for a change. I won’t let the fact that it’s getting colder here in the US deter me. If I want to make a lasting change in my life, I’m gonna have to make some sacrifices, including my comfort. I’ll let you all know how it goes.

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I'd suggest you reading Atomic Habits by James Clear. Many people here find it helpful, myself included. There are some very good suggestions regarding quitting something and making new habits stick. One of the main takeaways is to make very small (atomic) changes daily, that will benefit you in the long run. Like you don't have to change everything in one day, rather start small, but never skip. For example with your idea to spend more time outside. You don't have to spend 12 hours outside on day 1, instead you might start with a small 5 minute walk around your house, next day 10, then 15 etc. You might even add 5 minutes only once a week.

Don't take my words too seriously though, I'm not an expert, I'd suggest reading a full book instead and deciding on your own how to approach stuff with hobbies.

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At this point, I’m starting to wonder if it’s even possible for me to quit games.

I say this because my life is so utterly uninteresting that I feel like I need games just to kill time. When I’m not at work, I spend my entire day at home not doing much of anything. Since I don’t have a car, I can’t really come and go from my house as I please. This limits me to finding things to do inside the house, and the few activities I try to get into either don’t stick or are unenjoyable to me. Nothing I’ve tried has been able to serve as an adequate replacement for gaming in my life. I think it would be easier for me if I had a car, but then again that just sounds like an excuse. I can only ever go a few days at a time without gaming until the boredom overwhelms me, and I come running right back. But then the issue is that I don’t even enjoy the games like I used to. It’s as if nothing interests me anymore. I’ve tried computer programming, going outside more, reading, you name it: nothing seems to hold my interest very long. Outside of work, I spend most of the day sleeping, just out of sheer boredom. This isn’t any way to live, but I don’t know how to fix it.

It isn’t all bad, though. I’ve managed to stay away from my compulsive sexual behaviors for a while (and saved a lot of money in the process). I’ve also started listening to a great audiobook, The 48 Laws of Power, which is unlike any book I’ve ever read/listened to before. It made me reflect on my life and the power dynamic that has existed between me and others, and I realized something about myself: I want to be powerful. In what context I want said power remains to be seen, but case in point, I know what it feels like to be powerless, and I never want to feel that way again. Despite this mind-numbing boredom I feel almost every day, my life isn’t all that bad. I never have to worry about what I’m going to eat, or where I’m going to sleep. I’m making decent money for someone my age who lives at home, and while I don’t go out much or have much of a social life, I don’t feel lonely. I’m just really, really bored and really, really dissatisfied with my life. There has to be something more than… well, this. I thought my life would be a lot more exciting by now. I just turned 20, and evidently your 20s are supposed to be the time of your life. But I’m definitely not having the time of my life right now. I keep looking for what will fulfill me, but I can’t seem to find it anywhere. I’ve done the whole spiritual thing which proposes that true peace and contentment can be found within, but that doesn’t work for me. I want something more. Something tangible. I want to wake up and feel like my life has meaning. I want to wake up excited to be alive. I just don’t have that right now. I feel like I’m just going through the motions, like I’m just existing. And I’m sick of it.

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1 hour ago, Paul A. said:

I say this because my life is so utterly uninteresting that I feel like I need games just to kill time. When I’m not at work, I spend my entire day at home not doing much of anything.

Been there, done that. The thing is, games give you instant gratification, immediate response, while when you do something in real life, it has a learning curve and little to no feedback when you start. For example with programming, learning language syntax is the most boring part. Mostly you just memorize stuff, while not having any space for creativity. Then you start learning algorithms and data structures, which is more fun. And when you start doing your own project programming really shines. You reap what you sow.

In my case, I was a top 500 player in Europe, playing competitively both in ranked mode and tournaments with my team. I was in top <1% of playerbase. I was good at what I was doing, I had "friends" in game, a goal to get more ranking points, get even better. When I quit I lost everything. In real life I am no one, with no skills, no education, no work, no friends, sucking and failing at everything I try. During my second or third try to quit I was so depressed I wanted to kill myself. Every night I went to sleep with a hope to never wake up.

It's been more than 2 years since I started actively trying to quit, I'm still dealing with all of this. But it gets better with time, you just have to suffer through. If you are an addict, there is no easy way out.

Pochatok wrote a very good post about it in my old journal.

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6 hours ago, Paul A. said:

Outside of work, I spend most of the day sleeping, just out of sheer boredom. This isn’t any way to live, but I don’t know how to fix it.

I don't know how much you gamed and for how many hours a day, however for me it has easily been several years (since 13-14 until I was 21) for dozens of hours a week. Cut yourself some slack. You can feel like this for weeks and months just to get out eventually. I'm sure I loathed my lifestyle/gaming for at least a few years until I came here. Stay with us 🙂

6 hours ago, Paul A. said:

I just turned 20, and evidently your 20s are supposed to be the time of your life. But I’m definitely not having the time of my life right now.

I am 25 and I enjoy my life, however I think this "senseless nostalgia" truly sets only in the heads of weak-minded people. That's not to say I don't have some nice memories of being a kid or teenager, but I wouldn't want to live that time again. I wouldn't want to go back to the time of gaming all day, my parents telling me what to do all the time, not having money to do anything (and going to school instead) or being rejected by any non-virtual social group. I believe the best time to live is "now", no matter what age you are.

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Well, guess I'm back.

I spent the past month gaming almost incessantly, outside of work and sleep at least. I guess I had gotten sick of being bored all the time. The last time I tried to quit gaming, I shuffled through a number of different replacement activities, each proving to be ineffective. That being said, I believe I may have figured out why. Ever since I can remember, I've had a strong desire to find my "passion" (whatever it may be) and turn it into a career. This has led me down a long road of trying (and failing) to monetize a number of different hobbies, from making music to computer programming. The desire to monetize every little hobby I pick up sucks the fun right out of them. This explains why I tend to jump from one hobby to the next. I have a very real case of "shiny object syndrome", which is probably a side effect of my bipolar disorder. That being the case, I've learned a lot about myself over this past month, including but not limited to:

1. I can't enjoy competitive games because I'm overcome by a need to be the best

2. I have a hard time losing

3. I need to learn to enjoy an activity for the activity's sake, not for the promise of potential profit

4. I hate being bored more than anything else

5. The Roblox fighting game community sucks (doesn't really have to do with me but thought I'd throw it in there)

All in all, I think the past month was necessary for my personal development. The approach I took to quitting games the last time wasn't at all sustainable, and I was bound to relapse sooner rather than later (which I did). But this time around, armed with my increased self-knowledge, I'm determined to put video games down for good. I've already found a suitable replacement activity in music production, which is something I dabbled with in the past as a potential source of income. Obviously, I'm not entertaining that possibility this time; producing is strictly a fun pastime now and nothing more. Although, one thing I did fail to realize last time was that I can't rely on just one activity to fill the void that gaming did. I can spend a few hours at a time producing, but I can't make beats all day the way I could spend all day gaming. With that in mind, I've gotten back into reading manga and watching anime as secondary activities. They're not meant to be activities to fill up a lot of time, but they're entertaining enough that I can enjoy them throughout the day. The strategy I had to use only one activity to replace gaming was naive at best. It'll take more than that to replace an activity as addictive as gaming. Anyway, it's good to be back! Looking forward to catching up with you all.

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On 10/18/2022 at 7:42 AM, Paul A. said:

I just turned 20, and evidently your 20s are supposed to be the time of your life. But I’m definitely not having the time of my life right now.

First of all, happy birthday.
And second of all, it is true that your twenties are the time where you usually get to experience the most new things and it is one of the moments of life when you are healthy or you still haven't felt consequences from bad life habits. But it is also the moment where you will feel lost the most, it is a time of experimentation, of messing up, of reflection, it is a time where you are probably not going to feel good mentally and not know where to go.

And that is normal and fine, you don't have the experience yet and you are in the process of becoming more independent and getting to know yourself, not having a preset schedule and list of chores (like you did in school). 

I know it is complex and it sounds daunting, I myself often struggle with similar instances of frustration, dissatisfaction at my life or lack of progress in quitting. My best advice? don't be afraid to try and don't be scared or ashamed of failing, at the rate at which medicine is going you still have like 100 more years to get it right, so since you, me and practically no human being has been born with no potential in to adapt and overcome the only that could stop us from getting something is not trying.

Or as a 100 year old put it, it is never to late to have a happy childhood, but the second one is up to you and no one else.

20 hours ago, Paul A. said:

All in all, I think the past month was necessary for my personal development. The approach I took to quitting games the last time wasn't at all sustainable, and I was bound to relapse sooner rather than later

It is good to know that you are back Paul and that you have managed to take it well, happy birthday again and here is to a eventful twenties, you can do it, you have already proven yourself capable and willing to get yourself through this, now the only thing left to get down to dare again to try, fail and in the end succeed.

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22 hours ago, Paul A. said:

Well, guess I'm back.

I spent the past month gaming almost incessantly, outside of work and sleep at least. I guess I had gotten sick of being bored all the time. The last time I tried to quit gaming, I shuffled through a number of different replacement activities, each proving to be ineffective. That being said, I believe I may have figured out why. Ever since I can remember, I've had a strong desire to find my "passion" (whatever it may be) and turn it into a career. This has led me down a long road of trying (and failing) to monetize a number of different hobbies, from making music to computer programming. The desire to monetize every little hobby I pick up sucks the fun right out of them. This explains why I tend to jump from one hobby to the next. I have a very real case of "shiny object syndrome", which is probably a side effect of my bipolar disorder. That being the case, I've learned a lot about myself over this past month, including but not limited to:

1. I can't enjoy competitive games because I'm overcome by a need to be the best

2. I have a hard time losing

3. I need to learn to enjoy an activity for the activity's sake, not for the promise of potential profit

4. I hate being bored more than anything else

5. The Roblox fighting game community sucks (doesn't really have to do with me but thought I'd throw it in there)

All in all, I think the past month was necessary for my personal development. The approach I took to quitting games the last time wasn't at all sustainable, and I was bound to relapse sooner rather than later (which I did). But this time around, armed with my increased self-knowledge, I'm determined to put video games down for good. I've already found a suitable replacement activity in music production, which is something I dabbled with in the past as a potential source of income. Obviously, I'm not entertaining that possibility this time; producing is strictly a fun pastime now and nothing more. Although, one thing I did fail to realize last time was that I can't rely on just one activity to fill the void that gaming did. I can spend a few hours at a time producing, but I can't make beats all day the way I could spend all day gaming. With that in mind, I've gotten back into reading manga and watching anime as secondary activities. They're not meant to be activities to fill up a lot of time, but they're entertaining enough that I can enjoy them throughout the day. The strategy I had to use only one activity to replace gaming was naive at best. It'll take more than that to replace an activity as addictive as gaming. Anyway, it's good to be back! Looking forward to catching up with you all.

Don't forget that each message doesn't have to be very long, but daily consistency is important! Good luck!

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Fairly uneventful day today. Woke up, made a beat, went to work, and came home. Work has become more fun recently bc I have great coworkers, and we like to have a good time. We spend time freestyling over beats and joking around. We’re even planning to go to a recording studio this weekend to record a song together. Anyway, my Roblox account is still pending deletion. I’m waiting to hear back from customer support, it’s been over 24 hours and still no word from them. Either way, I didn’t touch the game at all today, which is a win. I’m gonna practice my freestyling a bit more before I go to bed.

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On 11/30/2022 at 3:12 AM, Paul A. said:

Ever since I can remember, I've had a strong desire to find my "passion" (whatever it may be) and turn it into a career. This has led me down a long road of trying (and failing) to monetize a number of different hobbies, from making music to computer programming. The desire to monetize every little hobby I pick up sucks the fun right out of them. This explains why I tend to jump from one hobby to the next.

I've recently had an inner tingle that I might be as passionate about English teaching as I was about gaming. That's after about three years of teaching regularly. That's a really long time and these things do take time. To me, it's both scary and comforting at the same time. You already have the basics for what you want to develop in the future.

On 11/30/2022 at 3:12 AM, Paul A. said:

Although, one thing I did fail to realize last time was that I can't rely on just one activity to fill the void that gaming did. I can spend a few hours at a time producing, but I can't make beats all day the way I could spend all day gaming. With that in mind, I've gotten back into reading manga and watching anime as secondary activities. They're not meant to be activities to fill up a lot of time, but they're entertaining enough that I can enjoy them throughout the day. The strategy I had to use only one activity to replace gaming was naive at best. It'll take more than that to replace an activity as addictive as gaming.

Definitely, overdoing one activity is not healthy. Doing multiple hobbies and seeing where they lead is a good strategy.

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21 hours ago, Paul A. said:

Fairly uneventful day today. Woke up, made a beat, went to work, and came home. Work has become more fun recently bc I have great coworkers, and we like to have a good time. We spend time freestyling over beats and joking around. We’re even planning to go to a recording studio this weekend to record a song together. Anyway, my Roblox account is still pending deletion. I’m waiting to hear back from customer support, it’s been over 24 hours and still no word from them. Either way, I didn’t touch the game at all today, which is a win. I’m gonna practice my freestyling a bit more before I go to bed.

Some kickass stuff there deleting your Roblox account! Keep t it!

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Roblox account still pending deletion… support reached out to me last night, sent them another email, now I’m waiting to hear back from them again….

Several of my coworkers and I are planning to hit the studio this weekend to record a song. I was able to complete my verse yesterday and I even recorded a preliminary version that I think turned out really well. I’m excited to hear what everyone else has come up with on Sunday, and to see the finished product come together.

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Roblox account successfully deleted! Now that I no longer have an account to go back to, it should be easier to abstain from gaming. Hopefully I’m not tempted to make a new one.

I spent today with my family. We grabbed some Thai food for dinner then we went to go see the new Black Panther movie (it was fire). Also got to work on some music before we left the house. Just a fun, relaxing day.

Turns out we have to postpone going to the studio. My engineer’s all booked up for the weekend, so we have to plan for another day. Sucks that I have to wait another week or so before I get to record my verse, but it won’t kill me. I still have my own version though, which I’m pretty proud of. But it’ll be great to get into the studio again.

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2 hours ago, Paul A. said:

Roblox account successfully deleted! Now that I no longer have an account to go back to, it should be easier to abstain from gaming. Hopefully I’m not tempted to make a new one.

I spent today with my family. We grabbed some Thai food for dinner then we went to go see the new Black Panther movie (it was fire). Also got to work on some music before we left the house. Just a fun, relaxing day.

Turns out we have to postpone going to the studio. My engineer’s all booked up for the weekend, so we have to plan for another day. Sucks that I have to wait another week or so before I get to record my verse, but it won’t kill me. I still have my own version though, which I’m pretty proud of. But it’ll be great to get into the studio again.

Okay, so now congrats on deleting it 🙂 A very Important step. If you have any other games, consider deleting those too. Good job anyway!
I'm not a fan of watching movies or eating out, but if that's what your values tell you, I'm glad for you, and go for it 🙂
Keep fighting the good fight.
Not a biggie that the recording is postponed, I agree with you. Maybe you could use that time to improve the song or write another one.

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I’ve started watching sports, and I have to say, they’re a lot more interesting now than they used to be. I never used to enjoy watching sports, but last night, I randomly decided to watch a basketball game, and I was hooked. Today at work, I watched two World Cup matches, a boxing match, and a college football game. Even my coworkers noticed my unusual interest in these matches, a few of them poking fun at me for it. I never would’ve developed this interest while I was gaming. And since sports are such a big deal in the US, there’s almost always something to watch. I’ve already signed up for a ESPN subscription so I can watch sports wherever I go, and I think watching sports will quickly become my leisure activity of choice. That’s not to say I’ll abandon my other hobbies; I still enjoy making music and watching anime. But, I think watching sports will be my go-to. They’re just so entertaining, and they bring people together like nothing else. I spent a lot of time today watching and discussing sports with my coworkers, and stronger bonds were built as a result. I’m just glad I was able to find a way to fill time so quickly after quitting video games, unlike my other attempts. I’m excited to move forward with my new, game-free life. And tomorrow Senegal plays England in the World Cup, which should be an exciting match.

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