I, like many other's, like to pick up the controller more often than I should. I have kept myself very busy these last few years and now a time in my life has come where I have a little more “me” time available.
It started a few months back when I found myself in the envious position of having a fair bit of extra money available from doing overtime at work. I decided to treat myself to a (nearly)new Xbox 360. With fallout 4 being released this year I decided to buy a copy of fallout 3 to get into the mood and flow with the excitement being generated around release videos and Facebook talk.
Now here's the problem. I find it very easy to now pick up the controller whenever I have a free five or ten minutes.
Last week on my day off my one goal was to do the ironing, a simple job that should only take an hour or so. I thought, like so many of us do, I would have a quick go on the Xbox before starting. Midway through killing something or other my phone rang and I was invited to meet a friend for a pint of diet coke in the sunshine. Strangely,for me, I declined the invite as I was still playing my game and I had still not started the ironing. As I put the phone down and continued my game I realised I had just missed a perfect opportunity to experience “life” at no cost to myself or anyone else for no other reason but to play a computer game.Who knows what kind of fun could be had on a sunny day like that? What kind of interesting new people could I possibly interact with all on the promise of one glass of diet coke?
I immediately rang her back and accepted the invitation to meet her at the park in 20 minutes time. We had a great catch up, laughed a lot and made plans to do it all again in a few days time.
There is no great end to this story. No great adventure and no anecdotes I can remember from the time that will stick with me till the day I die. However, what I did get from this situation, and what I hope to show you reading this is that you should say yes to life! If I had stayed in to play my game and iron, I would have played for far too long and completely forgotten to iron. Instead I chose to meet up with my friend and achieve a sense of immense happiness and joyfulness. I got some clean fresh air and a bit of healthy exercise from the walk, I laughed a lot and more importantly I said yes to an opportunity that will not be there tomorrow whereas the Xbox will be!
Since then I have decided to say yes to almost everything like I used to and really start enjoying myself and my journey through life instead of merely being content and watching the world go by.
Do I want to go for a walk up the hill with a friend? YES!
Do I want to cook dinner for some friends? YES!
Do I want to accept this invitation to an NLP seminar? YES!
What I am basically saying here is this: If you, like many others do, Enjoy playing computer games, That'sOK. But put down the controller when the opportunity presents itself.
The Xbox will be there tomorrow, the opportunity will not...
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