Games can suck your life away. I've spent a week in a room doing nothing but playing games on multiple occasions when I was in High School or College. It's just

Games can suck your life away. I've spent a week in a room doing nothing but playing games on multiple occasions when I was in High School or College. It's just too easy to say yes and spend the rest of the day doing it. I know a lot of people manage to have a healthy relationship with games, but at this point I have too many negative associations that I'm hesitant to even own a desktop. Over a summer back with my parents, I played games instead of calling up my friends or getting a job or exercising more. At the end of a Summer I had lost my social skills and had no new real world experiences. I wasn't even comfortable going out any more. It was pretty sad in my opinion. On the flip side, I have had a wonderful time playing Starcraft with people while at school and made new friends that way. Games are like a gas that fill up however much space you have to let them fill up. If you already have a social life and work to do, they are not going to take up much space, but if you find yourself with weeks of free time they could very well take up all of it.