> I'm 23 and I spent my entire childhood wasting my time on Social media, World Of Warcraft, and other pointless stuff. Literally 10-14 hours a day. If you wan

> I'm 23 and I spent my entire childhood wasting my time on Social media, World Of Warcraft, and other pointless stuff. Literally 10-14 hours a day. If you want to come to peace with them, just walk carefully through what you did, and observe without judging [1]. Think about it. Perhaps you're a certain level in WoW. Perhaps you made some friends in a guild. If you're studying Computer Science, maybe that'll give you a leg up; you can work on building Wow addons or something! > how would my life be if i spent that time coding/reverse engineering/learning the internals of OS, reading books, or generally developing my interests instead of playing wow and mindlessly scrolling on SM? You might think you know an answer to this, but really the answer is "it depends". Maybe you would have done great. Maybe you would have burnt out and abandoned the idea of CS forever. Maybe you would have been brilliant, but an extreme loaner doing computing contests and nothing else. You can never really predict stuff like that, so don't beat yourself up over it. One thing I have observed in life is that it's not necessarily the things you do consistently to get ahead that might end up getting you ahead. Despite this, the sheer feeling of excelling at something is rewarding in itself. ---------------------------------------- [1] This sounds a bit woo-woo, but helped me overcome the instinctive and fundamental cringe that I often had when looking back at myself regarding anything – life circumstances, friendships, hobbies, you name it. Maybe it just comes with age; but perhaps if you get this ability at 23, you'll do great.