In Defense of Playing Games on Your Phone
I especially love ‘Through The Ages.’ Here’s why.
Taking inventory of how you spend your hours, auditing and editing, etc., is a lifelong task, at least for most of us. You get a new job with a longer commute, and you have to let go of some of the hours you set aside for gardening. A new relationship blossoms and you start saying no to more group hangs with your friends. You notice you feel unsatisfied or unhappy, and you try to decide what you can add (an hour of exercise?) or subtract (eleven hours of “Grey’s Anatomy”?) to feel better.
Having a baby magnifies this evaluation, because the baby is all day every day, every week, every month, every year, for the rest of your life. (At some point it stops being “the baby” and starts being “my 28-year-old daughter who won’t leave the house,” but you get it.) I have let go of drawing cartoons as consistently, leaving especially thoughtful notes on graded assignments, and reading basically altogether.
But I have not let go of playing “Through The Ages.”
I stopped playing “Candy Crush” seven or eight months ago, which was a big accomplishment, because I was incredibly addicted to it. I liked how it soothed me, and kept me from eating entire boxes of Oreos, and how I could play it while watching TV or listening to a…
