I am not a blogger

What ever happened to board games? I will just say it right from the top. I don’t understand why video games have become this mammoth thing, which I am not personally a huge fan of, and they have replaced one of the last few ways that humans actually socialize together. That’s not to say that people don’t have other ways of socializing but I mean come on. If you think that spending eight hours a day talking on your cell phone or typing on Instant messenger is social then I am going to have to ask you what a human actually looks like. This is just on of the many traditions I think that as Americans we have all lost and with them we have lost the communication and contact that comes along with it.

When I grew up we never had video games in our house. I always thought it was some guilty pleasure when I got to go over to my friends’ houses and play all of their cool new games. Beginning way back with the original nintendo and going right up until the first playstation. After that I realized how much time and energy I was wasting just sitting in front of a screen. The other part of it I didn’t like was the screen itself. I mean how does that not hurt everyone’s eyes to stare at those lights flickering in front of you all day long while the sun is shinning perfectly good light outside. I know my opinion is a bit radical because when I turn on the tube the only thing I am doing in watching the game or the news. I find what I want, I watch it, and I am done. Most of the time I only watch it after the sun has gone down anyway. Maybe I just grew up in a different sort of house with parents that actually had expectations of me but I mean come on people. GO OUTSIDE.

Now after I got that out of my systems I just want to make it clear that I don’t hate television or video games by any stretch. I have watched and played my fair share. I am also in a frat full of guys that gather every sunday and fill our livingroom until every game is finished and every hot wing has met its match. I am usually right in the middle of the crowd. Though I try to chat more than anything else, I still have to, out of lack of conversation topics, watch a good portion of the games on tv. I hope no one out there is reading this while playing their game and instant messaging any while cooking dinner in the microwave and researching for a paper due next week. If you are though then you may want to heed my message here.