Not impressed with your reasoning. Video games didn't make you lazy, you were lazy all by yourself. If you hadn't played games you'd have simply found other ways to be lazy, as you will in time to come.
Case in point: My sister's been playing WoW religiously since around the time it started. She played Everquest in high school before that in much the same fashion, logging a couple of hours every day. Before that she regularly played other video games on Playstation and N64, and before that on Sega Genesis. In each of those online games she was a member of a guild and regularly conducted raids with them. How'd she do? Valedictorian, full ride scholarship to college, skipped a year of it due to high placement scores, now she's working on her PH.D in nuclear physics. And you'd better believe she worked her ass off to get there.
Initiative and drive haven't got shit to do with your hobby. If you asked me to name the most self-destructive game ever I'd have said WoW hands-down, but clearly it didn't stand in HER way, and she's one of the most hopeless addicts I've seen.
Me? Believe it or not in the last five years I've not played games with as much frequency as I did before. I don't play WoW and never have. I gave up Everquest halfway through high school. I avoid playing games because I think about how much work I could be getting done, which I still don't do. Don't ask me what I spend that time doing, because I honestly couldn't tell you. I'm still successful, but I procrastinate as much as anybody else I know who DOES play games more regularly. If anything, though, I would say that my not playing games is more indicative of my inability to make decisions and lack of initiative than it is of how responsible I am.
Food for thought.
Case in point: My sister's been playing WoW religiously since around the time it started. She played Everquest in high school before that in much the same fashion, logging a couple of hours every day. Before that she regularly played other video games on Playstation and N64, and before that on Sega Genesis. In each of those online games she was a member of a guild and regularly conducted raids with them. How'd she do? Valedictorian, full ride scholarship to college, skipped a year of it due to high placement scores, now she's working on her PH.D in nuclear physics. And you'd better believe she worked her ass off to get there.
Initiative and drive haven't got shit to do with your hobby. If you asked me to name the most self-destructive game ever I'd have said WoW hands-down, but clearly it didn't stand in HER way, and she's one of the most hopeless addicts I've seen.
Me? Believe it or not in the last five years I've not played games with as much frequency as I did before. I don't play WoW and never have. I gave up Everquest halfway through high school. I avoid playing games because I think about how much work I could be getting done, which I still don't do. Don't ask me what I spend that time doing, because I honestly couldn't tell you. I'm still successful, but I procrastinate as much as anybody else I know who DOES play games more regularly. If anything, though, I would say that my not playing games is more indicative of my inability to make decisions and lack of initiative than it is of how responsible I am.
Food for thought.