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The document describes the author's experience growing up playing games and becoming addicted to gaming. As a child in the Philippines, the author's favorite hobby was playing street games until their parents opened a computer shop, introducing them to games like Angry Birds. The author became increasingly addicted over time, skipping school and meals to play Counter-Strike and other games for hours. Their mother grew worried and strict in response. After several incidents where the author stole money to play games, they received a beating from their mother and gaming was restricted. The author eventually learned to balance gaming with schoolwork.

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GAMER

The document describes the author's experience growing up playing games and becoming addicted to gaming. As a child in the Philippines, the author's favorite hobby was playing street games until their parents opened a computer shop, introducing them to games like Angry Birds. The author became increasingly addicted over time, skipping school and meals to play Counter-Strike and other games for hours. Their mother grew worried and strict in response. After several incidents where the author stole money to play games, they received a beating from their mother and gaming was restricted. The author eventually learned to balance gaming with schoolwork.

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GAMER

When I was young, I loved playing all the trendy games back then. I was always on the street to play
because, in the Philippines, pogs was one of the trendy games. This was my only hobby when I was in
school. I always bought it. I saved my pocket money just to buy it. I’m the type of person who, when I
want something or am obsessed with it, will find a way to just buy it.

My parents decided to build a business, but unknown to me, the business they will build is a computer
shop. A few days before it was realized, I wondered how to use them, so I tried them. I talked to my elder
sister, Arrah and asked. “Sister, can you teach me how to use that?” She agreed, and my first game on
the computer was Angry birds. It was one of the most popular games back then.

A week ago, my passion changed. I don’t play street games like I used to since I learned how to use
computer at a young age. I’m addicted to gaming. I go to school to save my pocket money to play with us
because this is a pisonet. My mother often scolds me because she doesn’t do my assignments. The next
thing I learned about playing on the computer is Counter Strike. It’s a shooting game, and this is what I
keep coming back to; it’s just wasting my time. One of the reasons I learned about these games is
because of my friends who play on the computer, one of whom is my cousin Miko.

A few days later, my addiction to playing on the computer got worse. Sometimes I would find a way to not
go to school. Male friends to play on the computer, which I do. I don’t go home first to play games. I also
miss eating. Sometimes my friends and I ate at the computer shop and when I got home at night my
mother scolded me. “Why don’t you come home early? You know I’m worried about you! You’re just at the
computer shop; from now on, I won’t give you money.

Since that day, my parents haven’t allowed me to play on our computer. When I go home, I borrow money
from my friends so that we can play. My mother was called because I was not participating in class, so my
parents become more strict with me.

One day my cousin told me that there was a place to play in our area, and it was unlikely that my mother
would know that place because we tried to go a bit secretly, and soon we were always playing, and often
when we didn’t have school we would go to straight to the place. That’s when I told my mother. We were
just going to play basketball, and this is where we started staying almost all the time.

When the day came when my addiction to gaming got even worse, I thought about stealing money from
my parents just to play. I did it several times just to be able to play.

One day after we were playing, my mother was waiting, and she had this this belt. She beat me and told
me that it was bad to steal just to get what I wanted, so after that day, she didn’t do it again

I only played the computer once when I was in fourth grade, and it balanced playing and studying. I
learned a lot from what I experienced. One of my dreams is to become professional gamer and be able to
play in leagues on the computer. One of my experiences was changing the things that I’m used to and
that I’m addicted to, but in spite of that, I learned that studying is more important. I still play, but when I
don’t do anything at school and there’s a limit to my playing time, things that we thought we couldn’t do,
we can do them, but there is a time for them. All we have to do is trust the process so that we can
overcome it.

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