05-05-2015, 02:51 AM
Video games and anime are things that spend time while giving very little in return. What you do get is only worthwhile in the moment. Sure, doing those things once in a while is fine, and fun. But spending too much time on them is a waste of your most precious resource of all - time. You can only spend your time one way, and you can never, ever get a refund. It may not be as much fun in the moment to spend your time wisely, but spending your time on things that will pay off for the rest of your life is always a better choice than spending your time doing something that will only give you a little pleasure in the moment.
I'll give you an example. I know a guy who inherited over a million dollars when his mother died. He quit his very well paying job as a mechanic and spent it all on guns and ammunition. Why? Because each time he bought a gun, he felt a little surge of pleasure, and he felt more like his idea of what a "real man" is. But guns require care and ammunition, and that is not cheap. But it IS expendable, and he ended up blowing through 1.2 million dollars in a couple years just buying and shooting guns. Hard to believe I know... but he did. When it ran out, he had to sell all his guns to pay his bills. He ended up losing his house. Then he had...
No money.
No job.
No home.
What did he have? Fond memories of having been a millionaire and spending all his time for those two years just shooting guns.
In other words, he didn't have jack. He wrecked his life because he chose pleasure in the moment over less pleasure in the now in exchange for sustainable benefit in the long run.
Video games and anime is only time well spent if it is a reasonable amount of time.
I'll give you an example. I know a guy who inherited over a million dollars when his mother died. He quit his very well paying job as a mechanic and spent it all on guns and ammunition. Why? Because each time he bought a gun, he felt a little surge of pleasure, and he felt more like his idea of what a "real man" is. But guns require care and ammunition, and that is not cheap. But it IS expendable, and he ended up blowing through 1.2 million dollars in a couple years just buying and shooting guns. Hard to believe I know... but he did. When it ran out, he had to sell all his guns to pay his bills. He ended up losing his house. Then he had...
No money.
No job.
No home.
What did he have? Fond memories of having been a millionaire and spending all his time for those two years just shooting guns.
In other words, he didn't have jack. He wrecked his life because he chose pleasure in the moment over less pleasure in the now in exchange for sustainable benefit in the long run.
Video games and anime is only time well spent if it is a reasonable amount of time.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
