Feeling lost on what to master after quitting video games.

[Max_V]

@LaucherJunge The thing is, to really master counter strike, it takes way more than 2 hours every day. Aim practice, watching demo's of yourself and amazing teams and individual pro's, learning the maps, learning to throw right smokes, flashes, and Molotov's, learning strategies, the list goes on. 

I stopped playing counter-strike all together because I can't halfass it, if I play it I want to succeed. Now that's exactly why I quit.

But this is not to say I don't enjoy other games that are not meant as something competitive. I strongly believe that games are a form of art with which you can express so much emotion and passion. The problem here is that most games don't have that higher consciousness meaning and purpose to them. Just imagine how much you could change the world if higher consciousness games came on the market. Making people see what's really important and helping them radically turning inward would be something that can be accomplished through that.

I don't want to say "ahh, all games are bad. lower consciousness stuff that wastes your life away, etc." 

Like all other things, it's not the medium that is necessarily bad, it's the one who interprets it and chooses in which way to make use of it.

So I will maybe play some games here and there, but I will not use it as an escape anymore. I've found what I want to do with my life and I won't use gaming as a way to not experience reality anymore, since reality always catches up and always is present. It's an illusion to believe that you've temporarily avoided the problem. It's just temporarily looking somewhere else to not see the big problem that is in front of you.

 

Edited January 3, 2018 by Max_V

[star ark]

I did a similar thing and cleared up a lot of time about 5 years. I filled the time with lame but VERY useful stuff like walking for a good 45 mins in one go and noticing how it cleared my mind for the entire night. Cooking very healthy meals and literally making a playlist on youtube of every vitamin, mineral and health benefit of each and every ingredient and listening to it as I prepared.

I did other things too but the most important thing I did was come to the conclusion that everything we need to provide happiness and even "leisure" was outside in nature. It's so beautiful that humans all find a sunset or a sunrise spiritual and enjoyable to witness - yet it happens every single day of our lives and it is still somehow scared. The calm mind enjoys everything of nature and you may realize our bodies and brains (I believe we have brains!) evolved over billions of years symbiotically with the earth and universe and we receive all our joy, fun, excitement and wonder purely from living in the now. These days if I can remind myself to live in the now I feel the warmth of the sun as a distinctly different kind of warmth, I hear the rustle of leaves as the sigh of the planet and I can literally feel my tension disperse, I see how many incredible artists there are out there just by looking at how people set out their gardens. The best thing is that troubling decisions are starting to solve themselves. A solution to a problem I have had for weeks will just pop into my head with no apparent prior thought, all of a sudden I see the solution without even contemplating it. 

Did gaming make you feel great when you first booted up a game for maybe the first 45 minutes or an hour? but then it losses it's charm but you feel some urge to sit there and keep playing? Because all the natural walking, hiking, yoga activities are not like that, you can hike for hours and hours and your body and mind love it. I'm getting a bit ranty here, sorry, I think they very realization you needed to give up gaming was the biggest step and you will definitely find something to do. You are clearly taking control and seeing a change needs to happen is one of the biggest steps. I'd still find the time to play some mario kart though. Even if brains don't exist mario kart definitely does!

[LaucherJunge]

@Soulbass wow awesome, I easily spent a few hundred hours on kz_longjumps2. My best was 254 lj block and 267 dcj block. I preffered playing extreme/hard maps in kz.

[Max_V]

@LaucherJunge haha I practiced that so much as well. My best longjump was 278.

Good times

Edited January 4, 2018 by Max_V

[Max_V]

@Soulbass I had 1900 hours in csgo 

[sgn]

Ahhh cs. Will forever be in my heart <3.  Haven't played it in years. I had to uninstall because I was so addicted. I played 1.5 and 1.6.

[Leo-Tzu]

2000+ hours in league of legends

300+ cs

200+ overwatch

150+ fifa

200+ mario kart 8 deluxe 

Not to mention 1000+ singleplayers like breath of the wild, witcher 3, skyrim, near automata, dark souls, mario oddysey, a bunch of single player indies etc. . .

 

I stopped this year everything. . . Dont wanna touch a single game for the whole year . . .

[bslpiontds]

 

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@Max_Vcounter-strike all together because I can't halfass it, if I play it I want to succeed. Now that's exactly why I quit.

Of course you can master counter-strike. Real mastery never ends, even if you become the best. The key to mastery in any process is to love the plateau and remember the ultimate vision or goal in the process when it seems like no improvement is occuring.
Eg. meditation is a process that never ends, and the real deep juicy stuff comes after approx: 15-20 years of practice. But there are a ton of lesser rewards on the journey, going on retreats boosts the process enormously.

[Max_V]

@bslpiontds I know it's a possibility to master it, it certainly is, but the question is, do I want this to be my main domain of mastery in my life?

I love the game with all my heart, but as of right now I don't think that's what I'll pick.

After I finish the Life Purpose course I might have some further insight in what I want to do.

Right now I started playing guitar and keep creating drawings. Who knows, maybe art or music is something I want to continue further with