However, I must admit that video games are very distracting.There are two reasons that I haven't bought a video game system since my Nintendo 64 in high school:
- It's expensive.
- It's time-consuming.
Answer: A Priority List.
It's important to keep track of your priority list (you have one even if you don't know it). Whatever it is that you do with yourself is a priority. It could be playing video games, spending quality time with your spouse, reading a book, watching tv, blogging, taking out the trash, knitting, cooking, eating ... these are all priorities. What we do with our day determines our priority list.
The good news is that we get to choose what we do with our day. I choose to love my wife. I choose to play video games. I choose to read. How I live my life is up to me.
So even though the Wii is fun, there are many other priorities I must invest time into. I don't want to become an old man wishing that I spent more time loving my wife or learning and growing instead of playing too much Wii.
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Come on, dude. Everyone knows that playing video games is way more important than talking to your wife.
ReplyDeleteActually, I have discovered something amazingly incredible about my wife: she actually enjoys playing some video games! She has been playing Mario Galaxy on her own and we have had evenings where we just sit and watch each other play, and even co-play sometimes! I never knew that she liked video games until now. She's particularly excited for Wii Mario Kart, as am I.
ReplyDeleteMy goal now is to integrate good conversations with her and playing Wii at the same time, killing two birds with one stone! But I don't think she'd go for that. :-) Oh well, I'm not good at multi-tasking anyway.