Challenges

There is a decent chance that you know that Lent began last week, even if you are not Catholic or Christian. Kind of happens when so many of us are in the same culture. Anyway, Lent is meant to celebrate the triumph of Jesus over temptation after spending 40 days fasting in the desert. Those who join the celebration do so by sacrificing like He did for forty days, not counting Sundays. These sacrifices are not suppose to be something trivial but something meant to better ourselves. Of course some people do not sacrifice but find another means to better themselves.

In my case, I am attempting to do both. My hope is to spend these forty days not playing any video games (with a contextual exception) and to work on my writing every day. Currently I'm not comfortable discussing writing I am working on, just because it still needs work. The video games though is something that I simply should do. I keep losing hours to them. Of course, I have those hours to lose, being unemployed. Maybe I can change my habits and start spending hours writing instead of gaming to decompress and pass the time and such.

What is the exception to the gaming sacrifice? Reviews. If any games come up for me to review, I will play them to get the review done. However, once the review is complete, I will not play the game until Lent is over, at the earliest.

For some people, these may not seem like important commitments, but they are to me. I know that as I approach two years of unemployment that I am losing my abilities. I can only hope that if/when I find a job that my talents will resurface quickly. In the mean time though, I simply feel it would be best if I do not let my gaming talents be honed at the expense of others I could work on now, such as my writing. Of course, I don't know if that will work. I don't even know if it's worth it. Seems like every time I apply for a job, I find a new reason to believe I won't get hired.

There was the Lost Generation, the Great Generation, and now I fear we will have the Wasted Generation. If you want to do something about that, give up because you can't. Instead focus on keeping it the Waster Generation, instead of the Wasted Generations.