WoW is eating up my life

hey there,

just needed something to get me started on this blog so I thought to write about how WoW (World of Warcraft) has become a big problem in my life by eating up almost all my time, time which might be better used by spending time with my family ( wife & son, who's almost 2 years old) or by finally getting those pesky studies out of the way.

It's a freaking wonder the wife has put up with my crap with this game for close to 2,5 years now. I guess that's something to be grateful of. I mean, some days I start to play when I wake up and play until I go to sleep. If anything, it has just gotten worse lately, maybe some sort of spring apathy or something.... The thing is, I know I play too much with the expense of almost everything else. Maybe time to get help?

I have tried to stop at times, to longest i went without playing was 3 months after which I got sucked back in, as I would imagine many others have as well. I think it would be appropriate to tell a little about how I got started with the game.

I did start to play WoW in the fall of 2005 so it'll be 4 years this August. My younger brother got me into it after I came back from a year abroad as an exchange student in Taiwan. I had a girlfriend there and being separated from her was not easy, so at first I guess I used the game to forget about it. By December that year, we had broken up because she'd been sleeping around... which i guess is pretty much to be expected as I had no clear plan of when I would return to Taiwan and long distance relationships rarely work out. So I got depressed, and just started to play WoW even more than before on the expense of my school. Something which i'm paying for now.

So I played till the spring and got fed up with the game as the guild I was in couldn't really achieve anything and eventually fell apart. It seemed like a good chance to break away from the game, which was just what I managed to do for a whole 3 months....

It has been like that for me since that time, I quit for a time but just find myself spending my time on other equally useless things and eventually I just return to WoW.

I will write more on the game and how i feel about different aspect of it later on, mostly on PvP as that is the facet i enjoy to most on my characters (Paladin, Shaman, Rogue, Priest, Mage, Druid, Hunter, Warrior),