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How It Feels to Be 7 Years Free From Gaming Addiction
Possible inspiration if you seek addiction freedom
I feel like a beautiful rat who was kept in an experiment cage, where I was forced to play a rodent maze video game for pieces of smelly cheese. I escaped and have roamed somewhere green and safe for a long time now.
I feel like a hermit crab who, unable to find any abandoned snail shells to live in, chose an uncomfortable yet shiny glass bottle as my home. I was afraid of change, but with encouragement from my hermit crab friends, I switched into a proper snail shell when the opportunity finally presented itself. My lust for beach life has soared ever since.
The above might seem like strange analogies if you’re not a geek about animals like I am. The game I was addicted to for the better part of 13 or so years was called Neopets. It was a virtual pet world that became my escape from my true, yet far off dream of becoming a human and animal rights activist and writer.
What’s your dream? And what’s your addiction that distracts you?
If you’ve ever seriously struggled with gaming, food, sex, or some other habit that’s not as notorious as drug or alcohol addiction, I can completely relate. I specifically never drank a beer or smoked a joint a day in my life because it…
