Quitting games - no way / doing other things - way !
I can imagine why Matthew chose to do something like going without games for 365 days, as it opened up other possibilities for him he'd otherwise miss out on. The key is to find some balance in the things you do - without having to resort to abstaining from something altogether. Why go through that? I don't see the point for me personally. But the idea of doing something different every now and then is nice. It is good to change activities every now and then. It is good to slow down and read an evening instead of bombarding the brain with information from the telly, the pc or the console.
Elise and I actually listened to the original 1955-1957 series of radio-plays by Charles Chilton. Amazing stuff and the tempo is so totally different from today's movies or radio-plays. It's great for decompressing, but so is cleaning up. For some reason that also relaxes me - throwing out stuff you don't need & bringing it to the recycle plant.
Going on a cruise won't be my cup of tea - no matter how big the ship is you always are surrounded by tons of people. Stop overs are often sparse and you only get to see the super-touristy places. Going on a road trip through New England US, the whole of the US & parts of Canada, going on survival hikes and rouging it teaching kids survival skills (did that in my early 20's mostly in the US), pitching up a tent on Spitsbergen or Iceland and go on lengthy walks. Walk along Hadrian's wall in Schotland and buying and remodelling a house in France are some of the things I like to do besides gaming.
I am not one of these guys that likes to train for a Marathon but a lot of my friends have and some have done the Rotterdam, London, New York and Paris marathons.
I can imagine why Matthew chose to do something like going without games for 365 days, as it opened up other possibilities for him he'd otherwise miss out on. The key is to find some balance in the things you do - without having to resort to abstaining from something altogether. Why go through that? I don't see the point for me personally. But the idea of doing something different every now and then is nice. It is good to change activities every now and then. It is good to slow down and read an evening instead of bombarding the brain with information from the telly, the pc or the console.
Elise and I actually listened to the original 1955-1957 series of radio-plays by Charles Chilton. Amazing stuff and the tempo is so totally different from today's movies or radio-plays. It's great for decompressing, but so is cleaning up. For some reason that also relaxes me - throwing out stuff you don't need & bringing it to the recycle plant.
Going on a cruise won't be my cup of tea - no matter how big the ship is you always are surrounded by tons of people. Stop overs are often sparse and you only get to see the super-touristy places. Going on a road trip through New England US, the whole of the US & parts of Canada, going on survival hikes and rouging it teaching kids survival skills (did that in my early 20's mostly in the US), pitching up a tent on Spitsbergen or Iceland and go on lengthy walks. Walk along Hadrian's wall in Schotland and buying and remodelling a house in France are some of the things I like to do besides gaming.
I am not one of these guys that likes to train for a Marathon but a lot of my friends have and some have done the Rotterdam, London, New York and Paris marathons.
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