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i realize the huge amount of time i lost here lol.
Yeah, that's a dark question.
I sometimes play a trivia game online. It has time-based turns, so every game takes exactly 10 minutes. Based on their score, I know that the top players there spend 40-50 hours per week with that game. Are they pensioners, or bedridden people, I wonder.
I also dabble with Civilization V lately, I already put in 195 hours (my sleep schedule suffers), than I check the forums on Steam, and there are people with 4000+ hours. Who does this? They must be kids. Bedridden kids. Lots of them.
I read a book the other day, it shook me, so I couldn't sleep. I went on to goodreads to check other people's opinions, and I clicked on this guy, who added 120+ book reviews last year, and similar numbers for a few years before. Is this his life? Does he have insomnia? Or an irritable bowel so he spends 6 hours a day in the latrine, reading Dostoyevsky?
People waste their lives. I know I do.
Then again, what to do instead.
Based on old people's deathbed conversations we can know with a certainty that having jobs and careers is the biggest waste of all. Alright, but what then.
I am a 90's kid, so thankfully, I have a whole generation of gamers before me. I hope that on their deathbeds, they will confess if all those hours and weeks and months playing role playing games, Zelda and Wow were worth it. Oh, and watching cats and singing girls on youtube. Yeah, that too.
Man, I'm depressed already.
Music for the occasion: London Grammar - Wasting My Young Years
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