Why I Quit Playing Minecraft

Watch out for that creeper jeffrey jeffrey starts playing minecraft what kind of minecraft player do you think jeffrey would be would he be peaceful and helpful in the server would he build beautiful and complex monuments no jeffrey is a griefer this is the kind of [ __ ] who will reset your

Progress you spent so long building your house jeffrey doesn’t even know how to make tnt on this game but he’ll come in and block by block destroy what you’ve built he will destroy everything you love and then when you’re upset because you’ve just lost an entire few days of

Progress jeffrey will smirk and say oh relax bro it’s just a game it’s not just a game jeffrey i’ve just spent 10 hours making that [ __ ] bro what the [ __ ] block by block adonis builds a beautiful castle the lighting the attention to detail the courtyard it’s all perfect

Adonis doesn’t know what minecraft is this is his castle in real life you see adonis chooses to build great things in the game of life why would he invest his time and his energy into a virtual world and so adonis goes out there and slays dragons but he doesn’t slay the ender

Dragon he lives the life that all video gamers want but it’s just easier to do all that in the virtual world you want to know what kind of kid i was i was the kid who after high school would run home literally ah [ __ ] cringe and run home

Past everyone who knew me right and they knew why i was running home i was running home so i can go play video games it’s a chilly tuesday at 3 p.m and i’ve just gone on to my laptop open up skype and there’s already a call going they’re already inside of the server

That we used to play on which was minecraft hunger games if you ever played minecraft hunger games bro oh my god we have so much in common that was the oh i have never felt my heart beating so fast imagine entering like a server there’s a hundred different

People right next to you you start off with nothing and the idea is okay survive do whatever it takes to survive you can make teams if you want you can go find you can build just survive don’t get killed by anyone else and every few seconds you see people dying dying dying

Dying you’ve survived the initial slaughter you’re getting some resources and you hear footsteps some people can say that oh but it’s just the game but it’s like bro you’ve been in this game for 20 minutes that’s some like valuable time and you’ve got some level of commitment and investment to survive you

Want to win and the sound of someone else keeps getting louder and louder and louder and then you see him he’s got full iron you [ __ ] scream to your boys you and your boys have only got stone swords but you’re just gonna [ __ ] try it your heart starts

Dropping the full iron guys hitting you hard you’re pretty sure one of the hits was from one of your boys by accident and then out of nowhere the guy in flying just explodes into a burst of items you’ve got full iron to share amongst you and he even had tony iron

Ore your boys scream like we can actually win this that was so so fun i enjoyed moments like that for hundreds of days in a row until eventually i quit playing minecraft i was kind of insecure and i felt like it was a childish game and then for some reason i thought the

More mature video game for me to play was league of legends and there was more children on league of legends than there was in minecraft so then high school finishes i’m 16 17 playing league of legends i don’t play minecraft again for many many years interestingly up until i was around 22

Years old and the coveted lockdown has just happened i’m an adult i’ve graduated from university i have a job in a homeless accommodation shelter and i have a girlfriend i’m living with my girlfriend so i’m not living with my family i’m living with my girlfriend in

An apartment in the city and we were into like bad habits at this time we were kind of like lazy you know there’s a covered lock down nobody knows what the [ __ ] was happening so we would literally wake up put on our bathrobes get high and then play minecraft

Together so imagine that you’ve lived your entire childhood in teenage years as a gamer and the one thing you’ve kind of always wanted was a game of guilt like we all want to game a girlfriend and eventually you meet a girl who you like and you’re vibing with and she buys

A gaming pc just because you’ve got one and then you both want to play together and we play like various games we played like dying light and runescape league of legends but minecraft was always one of our favorites we set both of our computers up like back to back in one of

The rooms we had in the apartment we had like those led lights good times man so minecraft me and her made like a normal world and the idea was that we were trying to get to the end of dragon and we made like a massive farm it was the

First time that i was playing minecraft in so long and so there was so much news for me to learn there’s like flying bats or some [ __ ] and there was a crossbow and we used to troll each other and remember there were some times when like

I’d break the blocks and then that’s a classic i’d break the blocks underneath her and just make a fall or i’d trap her in like obsidian or something and every now and then would like kill each other i would be proper fighting each other it’s good times man those times during

The coveted lockdown when that’s literally all i did all day they were pleasurable but young men must grow through discomfort so even though i was living what was my former dream i wasn’t really happy i had this constant nagging thought in my mind of like what are you

Doing with your life like you haven’t exercised in so long yeah the gyms are closed but you could have been doing home workouts why are you eating so much food you said you quit smoking weed you can’t even afford that be productive you want to create some kind of success for

Yourself study read books do something valuable with your time eventually those fun times were just getting plagued by negative thoughts i hadn’t grown myself as a person in so long that i became so sick of being me i lashed out like a dumbass i lashed out at her i lashed out

After video games you know i hate video games and everything and like i hate junk food i hate weed and everything and this was the hardest decision of my life this was honestly the hardest decision of my life it took me nine months to make this decision you know you can buy

Like notepads from the shop like two full books notepads of journaling weighing up the decision to leave to move back to my family home knowing that i would break up with my girlfriend and i would straight away stop all like the bad habits that i was doing so i could

Be focused on my growth and my future trajectory nine months it took me to weigh up that decision i left her i left minecraft i left manchester it was the city that i was living in so i could move back to my family home be on self-improvement full-time start this

Youtube channel and try and grow it as best as i could i’ve achieved a level of success that blows my mind and i’m so grateful that i quit playing minecraft for that i’m grateful for the memories that i’ve had and i’ll always look back with a sense of nostalgia but i’ve been

So excited at the chapters ahead of my life as a young man who’s putting in the work share this video with the geoffrey friend who needs it do the hard work especially when you don’t feel like it