Seems like only yesterday I could sit, staring blankly at a screen for hours on end. Now my time is taken up with academics. Not school per se, but studying what I actually want to study outside school between books and internet sources. If I am having less fun, I'm feeling alot more sense of fulfillment. Just think how much time you spend in a day playing videogames. Now imagine just how much you could be learning or doing in that same time. I'm not saying that videogames are a waste. Far from a waste, in fact they are still my favorite art form, a sometimes bloody and gory, ever interactive art form. Videogames can foster creativity, and a real sense of what your morality may be in the real world (just don't confuse the two please). People just really need to remember that videogames are what you do when you finish your work or need a break, not what you do INSTEAD of work or study. I don't know what has prompted this change in my opinion, but it is almost as if I've grown up and turned away from my videogame fanatic youth. Of course if they ever come out with a videogame with the depth of thought of say a Brothers Karamazov, I'll be along for the long long long long ride. Till then Mario will just be my pastime break between my real passions of learning, procreating, and helping others.