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Axum
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Alright, so ever since my "Addiction" to MMO gaming stopped I have been hit with more time then i know what to do with.
I picked up my reading, though even if I try, my eyes give out after about 125 pages.
I write a bit sometimes,
do about 3 hours or so working on the lawn (planting trees and working on the garden and whatnot),
work out about an hour a day,
but other than that my day consists of nothing but blankly staring at the computer screen wishing something would hold my interest.
Any ideas on things I could do?
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You and me both. Now that I stopped gaming, I sit here staring at the boards, or chat with some people I've not seen in a while through some kind of messenger. Reading only lasts me for so long before I have to put the book down. I take it you're retired? For me the potential of going back to work any day now is the only thing that keeps me from going nuts. I think if I continue this way for a bit longer I just might lose it.
Not sure what to suggest to you. I've always been partial to learning to hang glide or parasail but I haven't the money for that now. Have you considered travel? It might inspire you to write more, especially since you'd see a few new things.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
Until Champions or Rockband: The Beatles is released in September I've been killing time the last few months with an online Java game called Minecraft ( www.minecraft.net ). Someone else suggested it in these forums and I've been somewhat hooked since. If you are creative in any way you'll have some fun with this. I finally finished my single player map after putting in a lot of effort so now I'm trying to come up with something else to kill one more month or I'm enjoying the very interesting Multi-Player where you come across creations that are pretty unbelievable. Recently someone made this:
Now, I know this will come off as condescending at first, but bear with me. It sounds to me like you need a job. Apparently you don't actually *need* money or this option would have been (hopefully) obvious. Now, if you don't need money and are looking for something to occupy time that you enjoy, there are jobs out there that could probably satisfy that need. The other option is to take a class. I do not know your age or situation, but when I have extra time I study more for my work.
Reading.... Check.
Writing.... Check.
Working on the lawn.... Check.
Exercising.... Check.
Staring at the computer screen.... Check.
I don't see work or a relationship with a girl/guy in here at all. Those seem like pretty big things to do.
"TO MICHAEL!"
Actually I am only 15.
That is my main limiting factor.
I have searched around me and I can't seem to even get a job as a "bag boy" at HEB until i'm 16.
I could look for a class at the nearby community college, right now i am doing an online (painfully slow) driver's ed.
@popin - I actually do have a "girlfriend", though her mom seriously limits the time we spend together.
I hadn't realized you were so young.
I would suggest more sports. That's all I did at your age in school and every season brought at least another sport. I'm glad there weren't MMOs when I was growing up; I don't think I would have graduated between sports, schoolwork and MMOs. (or even Xbox) There's also chess club, Spanish club, Photo club and lots of other clubs through school activities you can join.
I also noticed you spend a lot of time alone from what you described. Most of the things you stated are "solo" activities that require no contact with anyone else. I would think someone your age would be spending tons of times with friends as well, but you didn't list that either.
"TO MICHAEL!"
I hadn't realized you were so young.
I would suggest more sports. That's all I did at your age in school and every season brought at least another sport. I'm glad there weren't MMOs when I was growing up; I don't think I would have graduated between sports, schoolwork and MMOs. (or even Xbox) There's also chess club, Spanish club, Photo club and lots of other clubs through school activities you can join.
I wish I could do more sports
I have minor cerebral palsy that happens to be in my motor cortex on the left half of my brain. Right side of my body is slightly less responsive, which limits me from the majority of the sports I would like to do. My right foot is also flat-footed, so if I do an intensive running sport I.E. Soccer, I will be destroying my knee-cap.
For a while I think I was using this as an excuse not to do sports, but after trying to fence for a while I noticed my right leg seriously holding me back.
I also noticed you spend a lot of time alone from what you described. Most of the things you stated are "solo" activities that require no contact with anyone else. I would think someone your age would be spending tons of times with friends as well, but you didn't list that either.
Parents are divorced, so i spend a lot of my time hopping from house to house. I know absolutely no one where my dad lives, and I have trouble connecting with people around me here in San Antonio. All the gamers are into first person shooters and all the people who are into anime are attention whores. I don't watch any T.V. at all, so I am somewhat "Out of the loop" with the latest news.
I'm actually fine being alone as long as I have something to preoccupy my mind.
Based on your unique situation, you are going to have to apply yourself EVEN MORE socially.
Sports (intramural and otherwise) are probably the most popular way kids your age socialize. There are so many activities that revolve around it that many kids are sucked up with most of their spare time, while you are unable to participate. Games are one thing but practices take most of the time daily, and most of that is pretty much socializing.
Since you cannot do those things without discomfort, I would suggest using those other students events due to your physical limitations. If you ask me, you are going in the WRONG direction by spending more time here reading tripe by some of these posters. You need to be more involved in your school making friends as hard as it is. I know you "hop", but you still have a school, right?
Trust me, those activities are life savers. Chess club, photo club, cooking clubs, language clubs, drama and acting clubs (you know how many Hollywood types got into that because of some other physical ailment or they simply sucked at sports?), yearbook clubs, car clubs, computer clubs.. the list goes on and on.
Try to think of it this way: if you were in India in some slumtown village with the SAME physical problems, the same home environment and the same problems, what would yo do there when they don't even have all of that stuff at their local school, boy scouts, or anything else?
"TO MICHAEL!"