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AngrLee
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I think your approach is a good one.

I will share here that getting out of this has been a total life changer. I realized that I had reworked my whole life schedule around this stupid game. I purposely set my alarm an hour earlier than I needed to EVERY day to make sure I had time to do all the daily quests, the spark run, collect my mission materials, spend 25 minutes in the lab for a few paltry gems, do the Jenga runs – 4 of them – if the day’s reward was gems, and do the 5 challenge runs during a challenge. Every night, I would stay up an extra 45 minutes getting everything I could done. So every day, it was the last thing I did, and then when I woke up, the very first thing I would do. Sick man.

This morning, I literally found myself with like nothing to do since I have been getting up just to do this for 2.5 years. So I did some work, texted my kids, read, took a leisurely shower then changed my alarm clock.

Similarly, I used to carve out an hour between work and dinner. I would sit in my car in a freaking parking lot like some stalker and do all the things I could again. GAH, what a sickness.

What is weird is that I felt kind of off balance without this thing in my life at first. The release of stress is amazing. I had no idea how much I had modified my life around this game and I didn’t realize how often it was dominating my mind. If someone asked for a meeting, I would evaluate whether it would impact the 30 minutes I blocked on my calendar midday to play. And now I realize how many times during the day I used to think about how badly I needed to check in to see where I stood in challenges and try to sneak a run in without spending stupid gems.

So good luck. I know you will find a similar release as you climb out of the ABT hole.