Not because of the anxiety of someone reading my text conversations, seeing ugly accidental selfies, or even the poems I write in my notes app when someone breaks my heart. It got to the point where I couldn’t trust anybody with my phone. I lost all my friends because of a stupid game. They stopped wanting to spend time with me and stopped talking to me in class, as I became consumed by my screen.
My friends were scared of me, scared to even ask me simple questions. I don’t remember myself being as defensive as I was at those moments before this forsaken game. They would ask to play a round sometimes, though. When I would hang out with my friends, I would ignore them and go to play Candy Crush. I would be unstoppable, a Candy Crush god. I loved the idea of starting new on level one and being able to say that I had beat every single level.Īs I started playing, I wanted to be able to say I made all the progress myself. I knew that my iPod’s first game would be Candy Crush.
When I was younger, my dad played Candy Crush on his phone and sometimes would let me play a few rounds. When I first downloaded a “stupid video game,” I had no idea the irreversible harm that would happen to me. To most kids, playing video games doesn’t even affect their mood, their friends, their relationships, or even their life in general. When most kids get their first iPod, usually all they use it for is texting their parents (only when on WiFi, of course) and playing stupid STUPID video games.
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