Going to Jail, Quitting Video Games.

uh i'm a sophomore in high school and i
quit playing video games when i was in eighth grade i can just say like my life has gotten completely better i've always been a heavy gamer you understand like since playstation one come out i was there man crash bandicoot rayman all of that i was there p2p free fifa call of duty ufc anything you can think of playing heavily for my whole life bro i looked at myself like i'm not where i need to be man like you know i'm saying where i see myself being and what the aims i got for myself are very high record requires a lot of time i need to put a lot of dedication and focus into it reason number one why i quit playing video games completely is because i actually got arrested in december of 2020. i got arrested uh and i was in juvenile hall for one two three four about five months i was in juvenile hall i don't even own video games at all anymore i don't even this the closest thing i have to video games right now hold on is this nintendo that i play probably once a month like i didn't even make a conscious decision to start playing video games you know i didn't think oh i'm going to stop playing video games at this date it just happened naturally there's a lot of things i've stopped doing just just like unconsciously it just happened you know when i was in eighth grade i tried being a gaming youtuber and i played fortnite i played uh gta call of duty all like the mainstream games like the popular games and i really got nowhere i got about six views per video and i knew that was bad even i had high expectations for myself and i even knew that was bad if you spent hours and hours on gaming you're going to be a really good gamer if you spend hours and hours reading you're going to be intellectually smart and if you spend hours training every day you're going to progress in your physique etc etc i'm not going to be a gamer anymore like even if i wanted to i couldn't i've lost all my skill that i used to have i haven't played video games in like two years i'm just completely done with that completely done i'm not even gonna try to save up money to buy a playstation or anything because i'm happy with my life the way it is now um it's improved so much since i quit and i'm just happier my life has gotten completely better um me and my mom's relationship has improved like phenomenally my room is clean most the time like right now like this is my room right now like it's it's not depressing i feel comfortable in here and when i played video games there would be chips on the floor on my desk bro you can't spend more time on games and then what you're trying to be in that bro that's just simple facts simple fact if you're trying to be let's say a footballer or a flipping rapper bro you can't spend more time playing games and doing rapping or whatever it is that you want to do it's that simple i've built like a completely new person i'm somebody else now i changed when i was in juvie um i i was bullied a lot because of my race um because my background people didn't know much about me so they just assumed i was like a rich white kid uh i'm smiling but it's really not that funny like i was bullied a lot i got in a lot of fights i actually failed uh one of the camps i was at i failed it for getting into multiple fights um i got pepper sprayed i got jumped uh a lot a lot happened when i was incarcerated um but yeah when i got released i moved to this new city i've been doing a lot better it's been about one year right now since i've not played a video game at all i even sold my playstation in fact like i don't even own a video game anywhere i saw my playstation and that's it so whoever's seeing this you guys are probably like my brother my cousins my friends something like no not my friends because i don't have it anyway um whoever's seeing this probably is just a random person honestly whoever plays video games still which is like 80 of the people that are gonna see this video um i'm not going to tell you to stop obviously if that makes you happy and a random kid on youtube tells you to stop you're obviously not going to because i know i wouldn't have but just taking consideration that like things will get better if you choose to play less i know you fall into like a certain group of people if you play video games i know i did um things may be different now i haven't played video games in two years like i said uh but yeah it it'll help you emotionally it'll help your family relationships incredibly like i can't even explain it'll just help everything you will like all around just feel like a more grown-up mature person i know i do i'm almost 16 and i'm ready to like move on with my life i have aspirations you know i've got my fitness aspiration i have my self-development aspirations like how am i spending hours every single day playing games when i'm not when i'm not even spending hours into my purpose that's the main question i have to ask myself the that's the main question that got me to just focus my attention into what's what matters how can i spend hours on playing games and then not spend as much time into progressing myself that's the number one question you have to ask yourself you know that's what i ask myself i'm excited honestly i'm excited for my future i'm like i'm ready you know let me know if you guys enjoyed this video for the five people that have probably seen this or less i don't know uh just let me know and yeah that's it i guess i really don't know what to say uh if you know me from school hi uh if you know me because you're in my family um hi i don't i don't know