I wonder sometimes about whether gaming to me is a help or a hindrance. On the one hand, I love the way that video games allow me to lose myself in a different world for a few hours every couple of days. But on the flip side, that's exactly the problem. It's so easy for me to get swallowed up, drawn into a game that I kind of lose track of time, and unfortunately I don't always get the things done that I should.

Yesterday, I was supposed to be finishing up a project that I needed finished this morning, and I had plenty of time to do it. But, because I'm kind of a bonehead, and because I haven't played much in the past few weeks, I picked up my PS3 controller "just for a little while." Three hours later, I was still working my way through MW2 on Veteran, and I kept looking over at my clock, annoyed that I wasn't actually finishing my project.

Now, I got the thing done this morning, and everything worked out great, but there have been a number of situations where I've kind of procrastinated my priorities in lieu of a game, just because I find myself drawn back, pulled into gaming.

Oi. I know that each of us has felt this way, gone a little overdose on gaming for a while, or allowed ourselves to slip into a few "overly long" gaming sessions. Either that, or we go on a binge because we haven't had a chance to play in a while. Gaming can be a difficult temptress, and it's just something that I need to keep in mind. It's just a game, after all, and it's still going to be there after I get my stuff done.

So, it's more about willpower than anything, and that's just something I need to exercise. Game on, but game responsibly, I guess is the lesson. Just something to think about.

- K