Gaming is Alive and Well

I've been hitting the various tech news outlets and remain amazed that the gamers are all alive, well, and exceedingly active.

I recall my 'oldie but goodie' gaming days which began with the SciFi horribilis first person shooter from Id Software called "Doom" and it's various sequels.
 

I progressed through a number of similar offerings with which I was very happy until some unknown point in my life where work precluded all such diversions and I became this gameless tech worker who existed to go to work and that was about it.

I chalk it all up to the oppressive, lying, cheating, stealing world of education in the state technical education system with their moron managers who would only disclose that part of the truth they wanted you to hear and otherwise did everything they could to manipulate the lowly instructors at their lying beck and call.

I am so happy to be done with that life ... but I never regained that penchant for sitting at my workstation and indulging those gaming fantasies I once loved so much.

It is a sad but relevant note that the process of earning a living changes us. I was once happy go lucky and care free. Now I am immersed in those activities which make me useful and they are sucking up my existence like a black hole.

What little spare time I have remaining is strictly for my mother by choice. No one else gets anything. I used to have time for everything and everybody but it simply is no longer practical so I can no longer squander any.

So you who continue to indulge that urge to lose yourself in a those massively multiplayer online role-playing games which caught my fancy early on and held me so tightly in their grip for a number of blissful years I salute you.

Me ... I simply don't have the time anymore. Priorities have precluded my gaming though it remains alive and well in the threads of those news feeds I often read.