By Brandon Su, Staff Writer
Starting when I was 7 years old, the one thing that I really couldn’t live without was my PlayStation 3. That was the only console that I have ever used, even to this day.
I was first introduced to the PS3 by my brother whereas before that time, I really never had any other electronic device that I would play on. I would spend most of my time either outside, pretending to play sports, or indoors, playing around with Legos and toy cars.
As fun as those were, they never compared to its new competitor. The PS3 just had a splendid variety of games, which was a huge difference from what I had before. It slowly changed from something that I would not really touch to something I couldn’t do without. Plain and simple, playing on the PS3 was all I started doing, day in and day out, nonstop.
Due to this growing addiction, in 4 years time, it had basically completely changed my lifestyle. Going outside no longer sounded fun anymore, instead, it felt more like a chore to leave the house to do anything. Gone were the days when I would constantly bug my parents to bring me to the park every day. Gone were the days when I looked forward to meeting new people while climbing trees and goofing off. My energetic self turned into a lazy gaming addict.
It wasn’t until a couple of years ago that the PS3 started having some noticeable issues. At first, they were not as severe so I ignored them. I just went along with it and acted as if nothing was wrong. That would clearly be the wrong play though, as not even a month after I started noticing the issues, midgame, the console turned itself off. When I went over to turn it back on and it didn’t react, I knew I had messed up big time. It would slowly spiral out of control from that point forward, as the controllers stopped connecting to it, it stopped reading the discs that we would put in, wouldn’t connect to the TV when plugged in, etc. After that, I knew it was time to let it go. And so I did.
Thinking back to my time with my PS3, I have mixed emotions. On one hand, I really couldn’t have asked for more, on the other, I regret giving up my outdoor time touching grass and being at the park. Yes, it supplied me with countless hours of content and entertainment, but, it also cost me my relationship with the outdoors. I became someone that didn’t really go outside anymore and started to spend way more time than I would’ve ever imagined on the console. I really have nothing more to say about it, even though I lost some things, it was still a very very enjoyable time.
