Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Cleaning Up Game Addiction

An 83-year old former president of Egypt, Mubarak is put on trial for accusations of corruption and killing protesters while on a hospital bed. A high school football coach in Texas passed away in practice due to extreme heat conditions. Bus passengers die in Zimbabwe after a crash. Today is the birthday of Tony Bennett and Martha Stewart.

Today is an interesting day, indeed. I feel really audacious enough to let go of what I have been normally accustomed to which is playing video games like a drug addict hooked on steroids! It's been sort of like my security blanket all these years to alleviate the moments I felt I couldn't help being in solitude. Now that I pretty much covered the main games I associated myself with on this computer, I don't really feel like playing them anymore because I had this need of being ostentatious about beating everybody at a silly game. It just burned so much of my time away and was just so disregarding and precarious about meeting other pragmatic demands.

Doing the stuff I mentioned while being a kid is great! I'm now getting close to becoming an overgrown adult who hasn't done much, so I really have to refocus myself on obtaining some other needs now. For some reason, I looked up online to check to see if there were any sinecure jobs out there but none came to be of avail. I have really made up my mind to make a career out of working with computers because I get this sense of satisfaction out of it, even though I feel like everybody else already has the knowledge that I have. I can do some basic programming on a computer using Java and C++ which my degree taught me; yet, it's not really enough training to convince any employers to hire me on the spot for a very responsible position because they would like to see that I held my ground really well in a position related to it- it's all office politics and unfortunately, I'm one of those victims who fell into a grinder and have had trouble trying to get out of it. There is a source that is taking people into a menial I.T. position and is deterring for lots of people, but it's nonetheless I.T. and if it's going to relocate me to hot and a humid desert somewhere in Africa while being secluded with unfamiliar people for a couple years, then well I'm willing to live up to the challenge with it now. I don't mind being haled into starting out rough to pursue after something idealistic, even if I just want a position that's idyllic.

I now have a newfound interest with reading stuff. I never thought learning new vocabulary could also feel so auspicious. Reading books have felt ominous but if I use my imagination, it's like playing a video game for a long time just that I'm trying to have fun doing something that could be practical. Honestly, there's a lot of virile stuff I would rather focus but if I'm going to be sidelined for awhile, I might as well accept this foreshadowing of myself.