IRL (in real life)
I'm a gamer, I play games all the time, I have that buying books addictive hobby, but for games. I have a list so overwhelming I would need three lifetimes to finish my library. But I've come to a point where playing them is relaxing but it is no longer fulfilling. I get more pleasure sitting outside on grass and looking up at the clouds.
Am I getting old, or am I starting to see the benefits and rewards from living in the real world. Nature is profound and so amazing. I feel like having a garden is fare more rewarding then completing a game. Writing these posts or my thoughts in a notebook are more rewarding than completing tasks in a fetch quest game or getting a rare item.
I'm getting more boring and more boring by the day.
Recently I went on a walk with family, and it was wonderful. I got to talk, see some beautiful art and also have time to read a book. Reading was more entertaining then watching a tv show. Writing is more rewarding then completing a game and going outside and looking up at the sky fills my soul more than looking at a screen.
Am I disconnecting or am I finding that the real world is better then the online one we used to use to escape reality. I'm now using the real world to escape. The nightmare is the constant notifications from our phones and to-do tasks and upkeep for the online world.
Social media is fake or at best edited and catered. Where reality is just that reality.
What do you do to escape, and unwind and decompress. And does that end with you feeling fulfilled? Relaxed, better off then when you started?
Why is it that online avatars are more work then our own persons. Why is email and notifications dictating our reality on what we should do and spend our time on. What are the benefits from a sound chiming in letting us know we have a notification, giving as FOMO (Fear of missing out) and anxiety?
I'm a gamers, but I feel that is changing, I'm turning into a IRL (In real life) person, a reader, a walker, a writer, a person that spend less and less time in-front of coloured pixels. I'm better off from it.
I'm I being biased, its so rewarding seeing something with your own eyes, and creating worlds with your own imagination from text from a piece of a book. We all live wonderful and rich lives. And how we spend our time is not wrong, better or worst. Contentment in how you spend your time is all that matters.
But the more I live, the more I realise I'm a gamer, that's playing in IRL.
