Gaming: A Passageway Off Reality

    Gaming. Before it was only an option but now, it's an addiction. People are hooked by it, to the extent on where their lives completely revolves around the cyber life. From simple local bets to international competitions. Awards of the winners in international competitions exceeds over a million. Even though that is a lot of money, this practice that most people are doing, causes an effect in our lives such as spending money on wrong things, wasting your time on senseless works. etc. This habit won't stop because it seems as if people have embraced it.

Team Liquid Raises the trophy after winning the 2018 NA LCS Spring Split Finals 3.---dailycal.org

    Being too hooked to gaming needs to be stop because of serious effects. The scientific literature abounds with researches effects on video game play on children's and even on adult;s brains. These have a negative psychological consequences that leads to serious neurological damages (Castillo 2018). Not only that but it also caused people to spend money, huge amount of money. In 2017, there were 29.9 million gamers in the Philippines, spending a total of $354 million( Castillo 2018). 

First Esports Arena in the Philippines.---diyinternetcafe.com

    People tend to socialize less because of being a game addict. " I play video games because I want a way out of reality(unknown 2017). People tend to socialize less because they could care less on what is going on around reality. They are so focused about their games that they forget they are humans. Because of these online games, people tend to meet strangers online and mingle with them causing them to socialize less(Reyes 2017).

1st Esports Asia Championship. Sm City Cebu, Philippines.---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJegPP6TIa4

    Gaming leads to self abuse. People tend to go beyond their limits. In this case, it means they tend to sleep late because they are still playing, eat late because of games, study later because of this and that, etc. Research shows that between 50% and 90% of people who work at a computer screen have at least some symptoms of Computer Vision Syndrome(webmd.com). Computer Vision syndrome is similar to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. It happens because your eyes follow the same path over and over. And it can get worse the longer you continue the movement. (webmd.com). But even though people think gaming has only the bad side, it has been proven that gaming reduces stress.(makeuseof.com).

Bloodshot eyes because of too much staring at the computer screen.--- rd.com

    I hope you understand my perspective. I'm not stating that gaming is purely bad but at least show people that what they are referring to about online gaming is wrong. Don't let your world revolve to the life of a cyber addict because we can't change the fact that virtual is still different from reality. We can't stop people from playing games but we can help people to not depend on games. Because sooner or later, it will just disappear.

QC bans students in Internet cafés during school hours.---gmanetwork.com