Video Games, Your the cause

Video games have made a huge impact on the world from being addicted to making people abusive. Video games have been the cause of recent situations that have led to effects such as conflict. I myself was facing a couple of these situations that have led to conflict. On a bright sunny summer day, my cousin Mohamed, who is named after my dad is only 10 years old and lives far from my house. He comes over to my house for a sleepover for four days and he is very happy because he knows I have a video game console. He doesn’t have a video game console since his parents are very strict about their kids education so they believe playing video games are a distraction to their kids’ education. Mohamed has a sister that also came with him to my house for a sleepover she is older than him by three years. I wake up at 10:00 in the morning to go work and help my dad at the bodega and Mohamed was awake. I asked him what is he doing up this early he said nothing I was just using the bathroom, but it seemed as if he was awake for much longer. Before I left the house he seemed as if he was looking for something, I asked what was he looking for, he said my Xbox I told him, “no, it’s too early for you to be playing call me later and I will let my sister set it up for you,”  he then sucked his teeth and took a quick deep breath and shouted “why” so loud that my little baby sister Reema woke up and started crying. I yelled at him and told him that he can’t play with my Xbox until I come back from work which was around seven o’clock. He went on the bed and covered his body with the blanket and at that, I left the house to go to work. While I’m at work my sister calls at me around 2:00 and tells me that Mohamed wants to play with my Xbox and I said no until he apologizes for having an attitude in the morning. He apologized over the phone and I let him play. He plays with my Xbox all day long until I come back home not knowing I would want to play after working for nine hours. I entered the house and I see him playing excitingly and not tired at all I wondered how long has he been playing on the Xbox. I walk by him and said I’m back, but no reply did I get from him because he was focused on Fortnite. A few minutes later I told him to get off the Xbox because my friends were online and now I will be playing with them, he looked at me as if he owned the Xbox and that is his. I then told him again to give it to me before I lose my patience because he has been playing for far more than enough and he may get blind sooner or later. As he gives me that same face I forcefully take the controller and the headset from him as he tries to resist I aggressively push him and take back my controller. He then asked me why am I taking the controller from him in a mad voice. I then told him that my friends are online and you have been playing since the morning so that’s enough playing he then gets mad and smacks my headset on the ground as if it didn’t cost anything. I try not to get mad, but then he pissed me off way too much so I went up to him and yelled at him resisting myself not to physically hurt him, but his response triggered me those three words he said were “I don’t care” which pissed me off that I smacked him so hard that he started crying and going to my mother showing her the red mark on his face that was made by the smack I did. My mom then yelled at me because I smacked him over playing a game. I then went to my Xbox and started to play with my friends as I’m putting my headset on and I hear a weird sound but I didn’t mind. I started to invite my friends Cristian, Bryan, and Jordan to the party/group so we can speak with each other while playing games, I invited them and they all started talking but they do not hear me I wondered what happened to it. I tried to fix it, but couldn’t I then realized that my cousin had smacked the headset off my hand so he probably broke, I got up and tried the headset on a different controller to see if it was the controller that was messing up before I jump to conclusions. I tried the headset with a new controller it didn’t work I then raged and went Mohamed, who was sitting next to mom and I was yelling at him because he was the cause of my broken headset. My dad had come back from work and he wondered what’s happening and he asked  me what happened, I had told him that he broke my headset and my dad yelled at me because it was just a headset to use only for playing games so it wasn’t that important but I needed it so I can play the games and speak to my friends. My dad then told me to go back and play the game and to stop being foolish. I looked at Mohamed with a mad face and walked off to play my games. While I’m playing Fortnite my cousin goes and blocks the tv and tells me he wants to play, but I told him no and if I get killed in the game because of him he will not be playing on the Xbox at all. He started to move away from the tv, but stopped and asked me if I will let him play today I told him no because he got on my nerves and broke my headset but I will him play tomorrow. He went to the cord and unplugged while I’m playing Fortnite I was about to win the game. He pissed me off so much that me and he started fighting and I punched him in the face. My dad came and stopped us and then me and my cousin weren’t able to play on the Xbox because my dad had grounded us for acting foolish and fighting. The next day I woke up and he’s playing with his phone as I walked by him and he apologized, but since I was still mad at him as I walked by him with no reply back to him. But after that, I felt bad because he did apologize so I went back to him and apologized as well. Who knew such a problem would result from video games and that it can escalate really quick like me and my cousin who argued and fought over playing on the Xbox.

                           Reflection

Well this essay was unexpected because I usually don’t write essays about video games and how they have affected me or had an impact on me, but in this class writing, humanities I chose the topic video games like most of my classmates chose because it was something I do and something that have caused something or an issue for me. I thought this essay would be easy, but I lied to myself. In my essay, I wrote how video games can cause conflict with friends or family like in my essay I had a conflict with a cousin who wanted to play on my Xbox but I couldn’t just leave it like that I had to be specific and bring that tension so it can grab the reader’s attention. It was difficult, but I had some knowledge on how on how to get specific even though I still struggled with other parts of the essay. Being specific can grab the reader’s attention to make the essay more interesting. Who knew writing about a conflict that I faced about video games can be so hard and make yourself think deeply about how to word the situation. A person wouldn’t think video games can cause such a problem, but now you know. When writing essays like this I feel like you have to take time and think of the important parts and grabbing details to put in the essay. My professor from last semester and this semester, which is the same professor told me to use telling details and having that tension is a major part of the essay because of its what’s important to make the essay flow. Another part of the essay that was confusing, but overall this essay was not as bad as other essays that I have taken in another class, but 3 pages I really thought it would be easy but it didn’t look like it. Most essays I have written is based on an article or a book that I can get information from to complete the essay, but rarely do I write essays about my personal life only if mandatory in class.