Modern day life is a prison. Our freedom of doing what we want to do is controlled by our schedules and responsibilities. Working at a job, day in a day out can make you feel that you haven't made any progress at all. We are trapped in our animal cells, by the physical limitations of our bodies. Society's socially idealistic and stereotypic walls categorize us it to groups and suppress our original ideas. With all this psychological torture and repetitive torment of everyday life, people are always looking for new ways of escaping.
This was the reason that video games were made. To let you break out of the prison of the real world and enter a virtual world. You have the freedom to do anything you want in your own private world. Here you know your moving up the levels, going some where, and making a difference. In video games, the physical size and strength of your body do not trap you. So you have the ability to do things that that you could not to in real life.
Unfortunately there are side effects to escaping in to a virtual private world. While your mind is active and thinking, your body is not. Which might contribute to the fact that the average American is over weight. When you're in the imaginary world of video games, all the progress you think you have made does not translate it to progress in the real world. Therefore the people of the real world look it at as wasted time. With it being a private world, your social interaction will also suffer. This will make it harder to have a normal life in the real world, and, in turn, make you want to go back into your imaginary world.
So we are trapped in the dungeon of real life and the consequences of escaping into video games. You either wait out your sentence and dream of retirement, or, when no ones looking, escape for a short time. Just remember, the longer you have escaped, the harder it will be to come back.
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Modern day life is a prison. Our freedom of doing what we want to do is controlled by our schedules and responsibilities. Working at a job, day in a day out can make you feel that you haven't made any progress at all. We are trapped in our animal cells, by the physical limitations of our bodies. Society's socially idealistic and stereotypic walls categorize us it to groups and suppress our original ideas. With all this psychological torture and repetitive torment of everyday life, people are always looking for new ways of escaping. This was the reason that video games were made. To let you break out of the prison of the real world and enter a virtual world. You have the freedom to do anything you want in your own private world. Here you know your moving up the levels, going some where, and making a difference. In video games, the physical size and strength of your body do not trap you. So you have the ability to do things that that you could not to in real life. Unfortunately there are side effects to escaping in to a virtual private world. While your mind is active and thinking, your body is not. Which might contribute to the fact that the average American is over weight. When you're in the imaginary world of video games, all the progress you think you have made does not translate it to progress in the real world. Therefore the people of the real world look it at as wasted time. With it being a private world, your social interaction will also suffer. This will make it harder to have a normal life in the real world, and, in turn, make you want to go back into your imaginary world. So we are trapped in the dungeon of real life and the consequences of escaping into video games. You either wait out your sentence and dream of retirement, or, when no ones looking, escape for a short time. Just remember, the longer you have escaped, the harder it will be to come back.