Work has me exhausted; I can’t work fast enough to finish one project before two tasks, three manager questions, and four support requests come in. So much context switching, and I lose time and energy. So much energy. The stack keeps deepening.
People ask me, “Hey Shawn, why don’t you play games to unwind?”
“Well,” I explain, “my end goal is to get through the Golden Gate, but I need the red key, but only the old sage knows where to find the red key, but he’s hard of hearing and needs a unicorn horn to hear through, but only the villagers know where the unicorn is, but I have to find the unicorn in the forest, but then I have to fight the unicorn and win, but then…”
No. Gaming is exactly like work. Absolutely no.