Day 4: Quitting computer games is like quitting drinking by dropping a nuke on the pub whilst all your best friends are inside.

I actually spent a good 3-4 minutes pacing up and down in my bedroom today while my fiance studied her accountancy bits and pieces, not knowing what to do with myself. It's not the games themselves I miss, it's the sociability (or lack thereof), of being online with people you know and that you can have a laugh with. Uninstalling all your computer games in this day and age is not quite as straight forward as locking away your Nintendo 15 years ago was.

I'm realizing now that, to some degree, I need to practically rebuild my life. A social life built around bits and bytes with people from all around the world needs to be substituted by real human contact and real hobbies - of which I have a fond memory from when I last gave up games 8 years ago!

It's not the same as giving up drinking, or smoking, because you can still speak with the same people - you can still go to the pub and you CAN just order an orange juice. Quitting computer games is like quitting drinking by dropping a nuke on the pub whilst all your best friends are inside.