Ok, so lately I've been thinking about a lot of things. One thing that comes to my mind is why did I leave gaming and why did I come back? I was talking to an old friend from hs who I usually don't talk to. I remembered that when we were going to hs together, we would take trips to the arcade, we would get together and have PS2/Xbox parties (this was when the Xbox had just come out). We even had tournaments at either the arcade or his house. It was fun. As the years started to go by, I stopped going to the arcade and to the PS2/Xbox parties. I stopped being an active gamer. I didn't lose my interest on gaming completely, but I started to do other things. It wasn't until a few months back when I decided to get back into gaming. It all started when I visited my friend Matt. He had just recently purchased an X360 at the time. When we didn't have plans we would just go to his apartment and play video games. It was tons of fun and I had said to myself that I needed to get one of my own. I thought about it for a couple of months, until I finally found a really good reason to get one. I went ahead and got my own X360. At first, the really good reason made a lot of sense. As the time has gone by, I realized that I was wrong on reasoning the way I did. Nonetheless, it has been fun to get back into gaming. I will probably game (with as much moderation as I can, which can be sometimes hard lol) for the rest of my life. I look forward to playing video games with my kids some day in the far future. It's fun to be part of a community like Gamespot. Its crazy the way the human mind can reason but sometimes the end results are better than what you expected. That's how things work sometimes...I really enjoy gaming again. Even though my reasoning was wrong at the beginning, I've been able to find an escape from reality. After a long day of stress from work or school, it is fun to turn on the console and relieve that stress away. It's fun to pretend to be part of the "B" Company, to respond to your Call of Duty, to be one of the Rainbow Six, to fight as Goku, to kill Locust...gaming is just tons of fun! And this was just a random thought...