I am a GAMER!

I am a gamer. Yes, I said this many times earlier. I said this to many of my friends, I said this in many gaming competitions as well. In fact this is one identity, which I really like to portray towards the end of my life. But just a couple of days back, I was playing GOW with a cousin of mine who is 12 years old and all of a sudden, I asked him hey buddy, why do you play games?? He replied what else should I do? It’s a good time pass. After that answer of his, I was thinking; is this the only reason we play games?

 

What could be the reason when a kid started playing games? Does anyone have an answer regarding this? May be initially it remains just for fun but later on do you think that fun changes and become an objective or become an inspiration for life.  Well I was thinking lately and mostly thinking of myself, that what so far the gamer instinct of mine provided me so far. I was amazed and have found out a kid, who was aimless and clueless 20 years back, but now working in a multi-national company after beating all those bloody exams and tasks of life. And that kid is me now.

 

I consider myself somewhat successful, well may be I am being little bit overexcited and admiring myself but still I am not in end of the line. Back in 89-90’s I can remember, one day my father bought me a handheld. It was mono-screen gaming device and had only one game called “ultimate soccer” in it. My first step to become a gamer started then. I stopped almost everything, study, school, eating and started playing games only. We had a pool in front of our house then, one day I dropped the handheld in to that pool, Yes that was it (!). I cried for a whole day and tried hard to fix that thing.

 

But actually a different part of gaming started for me. My dad came up with an idea and said hey little buddy, cheer up! I will give you another one but there is one condition. I said what? He replied, do well in your studies and we’ll buy another. From that day I learned one thing that, in life you need to achieve things rather than just getting it. I got my first Nintendo after few months and no doubt I stood first in my class. But more important thing is that I got a lesson and possibly the most important one for my life. I became an achiever, I won 3 national scholarships till my schools end, and in return I got my PS1, Nintendo and off course the PS2.

 

I am not saying that my entire study or success in life deepened on those consoles but those facts actually kept the achievers spirit alive in me. Tell me one thing you all- don’t you feel good when finish a campaign in COD or win a race or conquer a land in Age of Empires?? Well I feel good always. That little motivation I got from my father 20 years back, actually made me as someone who always tries, rather falling back. Because ahead of every issue I face in my life I see an imaginary console now, that made me strong enough to achieve it.

 

Gamers are geek, I heard it many times. Gamers are losers, they don’t have any real world identify and live only in virtual world. I would gladly kick those people and would tell them that be that geek at first then talk.

 

Now let’s think what is actually going on now? Most kids are playing games now for no reason. They just play. I mean why?? Every kid got all the consoles and they spend time playing games. They buy games, start playing and then threw away those in a minute when it’s done playing. I hardly believe they really understand the meaning we gamers posses within ourselves. This is something really not right. A game can give you the idea of tactics, sharpness, intelligence and a lot more. Let’s not think that games are destroying a kid’s future. If anyone has doubt then ask them to come @ NF and check what we are doing here. Lastly this is to all those blo*dy people against gaming, I must say, I ran half naked in the street of Dhaka when Bangladesh won against England, I had to eat cockroach (it was a part of training) when I went to camping with Bangladesh Army, I broke someone’s arm with a cricket bat only because he gave a decision that I was out and finally I play games.

 

I can say today, that I am a GAMER because I am an Achiever and I am proud of it.                        I