Confessions of a past video game addict

I am a past video game addict. My parents always give disapproving faces when I tell them that I have done my homework and I want to play the computer, which in actual fact I have not done my homework. I always shove it aside and wait till the next day when my 'friends' have reached school and I copy their answers. Usually i spend about 15 hours a day playing the computer over the weekends, and on weekdays I spend about 8 hours a day playing the computer, sleeping mostly at one in the morning. I thought playing the computer would help me get better grades than before, which I had read in the newspapers that studies have shown that playing computer games can help relieve stress and thus help you concentrate better and help you get better grades.
But I have been playing for so long and instead of getting better grades, i find my grades going downhill, like an uncontrollable ball of snow rolling down the hill at an amazing speed. As stated, playing computer games help to relieve stress and in the end help you get better grades, yet mine is to get worse grades than before. I question myself at times, does playing the computer really help me get better grades, or even worse? But as people always trust the newspapers and what is wriiten in it, I decided to follow the trend and believe in everything they say instead of doing my own research on what is wrong and scrutinizing my wrongdoings.
Now, my results are hitting the zero mark from once a full mark score. I built castles in the air when my teacher was teaching all the facts that was supposed to be applied in the examinations. the castles I built were all on gaming.
Last time I felt irritated with my parents when they forbid me to play the computer. I was always thinking what was wrong with playing too much computer games. It felt like and eternity before I finally realised that excessive computer gaming was affecting my life badly. How I knew? Well, my friend that introduced to me the game told me that he had seen me playing the game for more than 8 hours on weekdays and he saw that I looked drowsy during curriculm hours. one day, he stood up bravely and told me that I must not play too excessively as it has affected my studies really badly. After hearing that, I thought that he was such a stupid guy to say that, but after a long reflection, something shocked me. It was time to wake up. I had to turn over a new leaf. I tried to control myself from playing, refrain myself from staring into that 'hideous' computer screen, but my willpower always relented. I cried to my parents one day. to tell them that I did not want to play the computer anymore and I had realised my mistake and my future would be badly affected, and my parents were beaming at me, I could tell, how brave I was to tell them that I wanted to give up gaming or to cut down on gaming times. Either way was excellent to my parents. Encouragement was the first thing that popped into my mind. I needed encouragement in order to stop playing for so long. My parents drew a schedule which I was to follow strictly. 2 hours of gaming seemed to short for me on weekends, but I was changing, and simply nodded in agreement.
Few weeks passed, and I finally managed to kick the habit of gaming 8-15 hours a day.Proudness shone over me, and I felt that I should be given a prize. Yes, in the end I gave myself a prize, a prize so priceless, so valuable, which was a greater willpower to overcome any difficulties that have to be kicked away. Nobody thought it was great, and nobody shall except for one, me.


P.S. This is not real. I just took this as an experience and made it up in a matter of 34.87 seconds. I timed, of course, after 35 seconds of dreaming, I came up with this idea.