I have a serious problem. It happens ever day. When I'm surfing the web. While I'm watching T.V. When I'm taking a poop. This problem is minesweeper, and I'm addicted to it. It started off a summer ago as nothing more than a game. I was sitting in the guard shack at Elmcrest watching a fellow coworker play through a casual round of expert and I was super impressed. At that point, to me, minesweeper was nothing more than an game with random and arbitrary rules where people luckily clicked around some bombs. Boy how I was wrong. There actually are rules and they make quite a bit of sense. I've since beaten minesweeper on expert multiple times and my PR is between 2-3 minutes. I know, impressive, right? Well, it wouldn't be all that bad if it were just a game that I played at work but this past trimester I found minesweeper as a free MacBook app and downloaded it onto my computer. Since then, I have been consumed by the game. Everything I do on the computer is happening either simultaneously or intermittently with a game of minesweeper. It' gotten to the point that I don't even think about opening up the window anymore, IT JUST HAPPENS. It's become a major distraction to my already struggling my work ethic and I need to stop it.
I've thought about going at this a couple different ways. In one scenario I just accept the fact that I'm hooked and just try to hold on until summer where I can play all the time without it interfering with anything important like, I don't know, school. This doesn't seem like the best option for me because I can only see this problem worsening with further exposure to it. Another idea is to delete the game momentarily and download it again in the summer. A much better compromise that allows me to focus on my studies, or at least on other distractions like Xbox, until the summer. But still, I don't want every waking hour that I'm on my computer to be dominated by some dumb ass number game. In the end, I have decided to delete minesweeper. It's just become more of a pest than anything and I don't even play the game for enjoyment anymore. I figure that it shouldn't be that hard if I just quit cold turkey and get used to immediately not being able to play it. Sure for the first few days I'd always try and open the window and there were times where I considered reinstalling it, but I was able to hold strong, and for that you should be proud of me. Aight, I'm done.
I've thought about going at this a couple different ways. In one scenario I just accept the fact that I'm hooked and just try to hold on until summer where I can play all the time without it interfering with anything important like, I don't know, school. This doesn't seem like the best option for me because I can only see this problem worsening with further exposure to it. Another idea is to delete the game momentarily and download it again in the summer. A much better compromise that allows me to focus on my studies, or at least on other distractions like Xbox, until the summer. But still, I don't want every waking hour that I'm on my computer to be dominated by some dumb ass number game. In the end, I have decided to delete minesweeper. It's just become more of a pest than anything and I don't even play the game for enjoyment anymore. I figure that it shouldn't be that hard if I just quit cold turkey and get used to immediately not being able to play it. Sure for the first few days I'd always try and open the window and there were times where I considered reinstalling it, but I was able to hold strong, and for that you should be proud of me. Aight, I'm done.
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