Perhaps the best part of being away from the kids and work for a spell has been the opportunity to reconnect with video games in a deep and tireless way. I’ve been playing a lot of games. In fact, there is a good chance I’ll be up most of tonight straight up gaming. I have been doing so over the last few days with much glee and much relief. I’m a gamer. I was afraid I’d come to a point in my life where I had neither the skills nor time to continue that most hallowed endeavor. This was, at least in part, a result of depression and the inability to effectively organize my schedule. Gaming lived on the backburner for the most part. Every now and again I’d drop the world for a game (see Mass Effect: Andromeda) and lose footing with everything else going on. Like most things gaming requires a certain level of precision and balance.
So here I am on a once-in-a-year vacation and the gaming is going down. Sadly, there are not many special games to play, but I have been splitting time between Minecraft, Mass Effect (Multiplayer), and The Crew. Mass Effect is all me, but the other two are games I play with the boys. So, this is still at least a little about them. I also plan to take a stab at NBA 2K17… maybe. That’s a lot of time needed on task and I have never personally made it though a season playing every game.
What have I learned from all this? Gaming makes me very happy and I need to devote more time to the happy parts of my life. In truth, I need to be a better arbiter of my minutes in general. I made a goal today to sit down and write a list of all the stuff happening in my life and compare that to hours in a day/week/year and decide how much time I can devote to things and what things genuinely need to go. My problem tends to be over committing to one task to the exclusion of others. It is a problem I’ve yet to lick.