Personal Narrative: My Video Game Addiction

A time in my life that caused me to learn a lesson was when I had a video game addiction at the start of high school, which caused me to experience bad grades, poor health, and little to no friends. My video game addiction had me playing games for so long that I would put off my school assignments leading to me having a .1 GPA for that year. When I started high school I was 4,9 and 180lbs At the end of my freshman year with the help of constant video games and a less then healthy diet I ended up being 4,11 and close to 250lbs. At the start of high school I had a lot of friends who always came over but little by little they stopped because I was always busy playing video games. My video game addiction in high school caused me to have bad grades, poor health, and loss of friends and allowed me to learn an important lesson early in my life. Getting bad grades in high school is very easy to do but even easier when you spend almost all your time after school playing video games. While …show more content…
Naturally a couple of my friends found more friends so we didn’t hang out much but when i had my video game addiction any time any of my friends came to hang out i would either try and speed them up to leave or i would overall ignore them while playing video games. Not exactly the best person to spend your time with but a couple of my good friends still came around a little to show they cared but after most of them moved away i had no one who came around after the school day was over and sadly enough, back then, i was more then okay with that. All i had after that was school friends, friends you only see at school and talk to during passing periods or lunch. I had online friends but how close can you be with someone you’ve never met with or even talked to at all, they would just be words on a