How obsessive can a person go for a game?
It was once reported on CCTV that such a young man had been living alone in an Internet café for the last few months of his life, looking as if he had no friends and no relatives.
What you do every day is to bury your head and play games all night, sleep in a shabby sofa during the day, eat a few bites of food after waking up, and then continue to play games...
Day after day, in addition to going to the toilet, he seems to grow up in front of the computer, and many people who go to Internet cafes to play with computers are not strange to him.
Until one day, the staff of the Internet café found that he did not wake up as usual to play games, has been in a coma, afraid of his accident, and quickly called 110. When the police arrived at the scene, they took him to the aid station.
However, the staff of the aid station found that he was too weak to stand at all, and while he was still conscious, the aid station asked for the contact information of his family and contacted them, and rushed him to the hospital for treatment.
However, after the doctor's examination, he said regretfully to his parents who rushed to the scene: "The person arrived too late, not only is he in the late stage of tuberculosis, his lungs are almost all full of tuberculosis, and many organs in the body have been transferred, I am afraid it is difficult to save them, you must be mentally prepared." ”
His parents saw their son who had lost his face on the hospital bed, they couldn't believe their eyes, they hadn't seen each other for ten years, how did their son, who was in his prime, become like this?
However, by this time the weak man had not even spoken completely, and a few days later, he left a sentence: "It's really interesting, you won't understand" and left the world.
Only a 700 yuan deposit and two heartbroken old people were left behind...
01 Step into the world of games
This man, Wang Gang, was born in 1980 to an ordinary rural family in Tianmen City, Hubei Province.
His father was a primary school teacher, his mother was an ordinary peasant woman, who usually did farm work at home, taking care of children, a son and a daughter in the family, and Wang Gang was an older brother.
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Although the family conditions are average, Wang Gang's parents, like all the parents of Jackie Chan, have paid great attention to Wang Gang's education since they were young, and as long as they can provide their children with learning conditions, they have tried their best to meet them.
In this way, when Wang Gang was a child, he was a good son and a good student who made his parents very satisfied.
His grades in junior high school were also good, and he was admitted to the local provincial key high school as a top-notch, all of which made the Wang family feel proud, and they felt that their son would definitely have a bright future.
In high school, Wang Gang lived in school to study, and the family's life was not alarming. However, one day, Wang Gang, who was in his second year of high school, was suddenly driven home by the class teacher. The father asked Wang Gang, "Why did the teacher call you back?" ”
Wang Gang bowed his head and did not say a word, and his father had to hurry to the school to find a teacher to understand the situation.
The teacher said angrily, "Your family Wang Gang misses class and skips school every day, and we can't teach anymore." ”
Wang Gang's father was confused: "Absenteeism? So where did he skip school? ”
"He's going to play games in the video game hall!" The teacher said, "Didn't you give him a lot of pocket money?" ”
"He never asked us for more money, where did the money for this game come from?" Wang Gang's father was also confused.
Later, after visiting Wang Gang's classmates and finding the game hall he often went to play, Wang Gang's father learned that his son was originally a game master.
He only needs to buy a game currency for fifty cents, play in the game hall for a day and will not lose, when he plays the game, many people stand behind him to cheer him, just watch him play wonderfully.
This made Wang Gang's father very annoyed, playing games is not a proper job?
At that time, when it came to the game hall, everyone thought that it was a place where some idle second-rate children went, and their son was a high school student, how could he not study and play games?
Besides, no matter how well this game is played, can it be eaten as a meal? This was the idea of many parents and teachers in the nineties.
So Wang Gang's father first found the teacher to sincerely apologize, and then pleaded with the teacher, "Let Wang Gang continue to go back to school, we must take a good look at this boy and ensure that we will not let him run to the game hall again." If he went again, I broke his leg. ”
Finally, under the joint supervision of teachers and parents, Wang Gang sat back in the classroom and honestly prepared for the college entrance examination, and finally was admitted to the fine chemical engineering major of Wuhan Institute of Chemical Technology.
Thinking of his son's past achievements, Wang Gang's father was actually not satisfied with this result, and he wanted to persuade his son to re-enter a better school for a year, but Wang Gang resolutely disagreed.
At this time, Wang Gang's mother also advised: "My son is finally a college student, and he is the first in our village, you let him study for another year, what if next year's exam is not as good as this year's?" ”
Although The Wuhan Institute of Chemical Technology later became Wuhan Institute of Technology and became one of the famous universities, this is an afterthought.
At that time, Wang Gang's father reluctantly sent his son into the university door, and before leaving, he told his son over and over again: "You must go to school well, don't fail me and your mother." ”
02 Addicted to games is difficult to extricate yourself
Although Wang Gang's father was not at ease with his son, he could not go to Wuhan to guard his son to go to college. All he could do was call his son every three to five minutes and remind him to study hard.
At first, Wang Gang only took time to play the computer after studying, but when he came into contact with online games, it was much more exciting than the video games in the game hall.
Gradually, he re-established himself, skipping school and skipping school all day and indulging in online games.
In wang gang's second year of college, the school teacher once again found Wang Gang's father, and he heard the same content on the phone: "Your family Wang Gang has failed several homework, and if he continues like this, he will definitely not be able to finish his work." ”
As a father, he rushed from his hometown to Wuhan in a hurry, scolded Wang Gang once again, and led him to find a teacher to admit his mistake, promising not to play games in the future and read seriously.
However, college is not like high school, on the one hand, the family can't reach their son in Wuhan, and on the other hand, the school can't stare at the learning and life of each student like in high school.
Wang Gang was yin and yang to his parents and teachers, saying that he wanted to study hard, but in fact he still tried everything to play the game.
And at this time, Wang Gang was a poor student who did nothing in school, hung up for science and skipped school, but he had become a well-known hero in the game, and the contrast between the real world and the virtual world made him more willing to be an ostrich who stayed in his own game world to enjoy a sense of achievement, and could not accept the frustration in reality.
In 2001, Wang Gang, who had not been able to graduate, returned home in despair, and he did not dare to tell his parents that he had not received his diploma.
After staying at home for more than a month, he only said that his major was still in the big city to find the right job, several classmates have found good jobs in Wuhan, and he also wants to stay in Wuhan in the future.
The parents have no doubt about him, they only think that they are rural people and have no ability, if the son can stay in the big city by hard work, it is also a good choice.
So they sent their son on the shuttle back to Wuhan, and Before leaving, Wang Gang's mother reluctantly took her son's hand and said: "Work hard, call home more when you get to Wuhan, and tell your parents if you need anything." ”
Wang Gang nodded and said, "I will contact you as soon as I arrive in Wuhan." ”
Sure enough, that night, Wang Gang's mother received a call from him, and he said on the phone: "Mom, I have arrived in Wuhan, everything is fine, you can rest assured." ”
But what Wang Gang's mother did not expect was that in the ten years since then, she had not heard any news of Wang Gang, and he was like a drop of water disappearing into the metropolis of Wuhan.
In the past ten years, Wang Gang has been indulging in the world of games, indulging in false glory.
Because he did not have a diploma, wang gang had a hard time finding a decent job. And now no one cares about him, he often stays in the game hall or Internet café all day.
In addition to the little money he brought out of the family, he would also borrow money from his classmates, and his life had been very poor. But a few months later he took a job repairing machines in a gaming hall he used to play.
Although he only has a salary of 300 yuan a month, he can play games there for free, just like that, with a little money, he goes to the Internet café to play online games, and when he has no money, he stays in the game hall to play arcades, and Wang Gang has been mixed for two or three years.
In life he is still the loser who has nothing, but in the game world, he has not only friends but also fans and apprentices.
However, if others admire his good skills and can play games, he will happily exchange experience playing games with others, and if someone advises him to stop and return to normal life, he is not willing to continue to chat with each other.
At that time, there was an arcade game called "Three Kingdoms War Chronicle", and Wang Gang was not only a master of the game with the highest scores, but also created new playing styles and moves.
For players who love this game, Wang Gang is the god they worship, and some foreign players even go to Wuhan to watch Wang Gang play the game.
Wang Gang even taught himself some simple methods of making videos, and then uploaded his own videos of playing games to the Network, which gained a lot of clicks and pursuits in the circle, if placed today, maybe he can also become a member of the Internet celebrity bloggers.
After arcade games slowly withdrew from the stage of the times, Wang Gang shifted his focus to online games. A game called "Dungeons & Warriors" completely attracted Wang Gang.
It didn't take long for Wang Gang to beat the game, and because of his skill, he constantly studied different ways of playing and learned to sell the game equipment he got on the game platform.
In this way, he can gradually rely on games to get basic living expenses, and just when the game hall where he used to work was closed, he was preoccupied with online games.
He once told netizens that he could earn 10,000 or 20,000 yuan a year by playing games, which was enough for him to eat and play games.
So later, he did not look for another job, and he lived by helping others upgrade their game accounts, selling equipment, etc., and played games in various Internet cafes for many years.
He often stayed in it for a few days or even months, and finally left only more than twenty game accounts and died.
In the past ten years, my parents have also gone to Wuhan many times to look for Wang Gang, and they also know the news that he has not graduated, but at that time, they can no longer care about getting angry, and they only want to get their disappeared son back.
They tried everything they could to think of, but it was very difficult to find someone in a vast provincial capital city, or someone who deliberately avoided them.
The reason why Wang Gang will avoid his parents is largely because of the guilt in his heart, he feels that he has neither a family nor a career, and his parents will not understand his choice, so he really has no face to face them, and can only choose to avoid seeing them.
It was not until he received a call from the aid station staff that Wang Gang's parents met him for the last time before he left, so the sad scene at the beginning of the article appeared.
03 The Revelation of Wang Gang's Story
Personally, I feel that Wang Gang's tragedy mainly stems from two aspects, one is that Wang Gang himself has no self-control ability and allows desire to drag him into the abyss.
No matter what you do, it is difficult to succeed without investing a lot of time and energy, but the investment still has to pay attention to ways and methods, and only by rationally using the resources around you can you do things for a long time.
Seeing that there are introductions to the daily life of e-sports players on the Internet, in addition to spending a lot of time researching and practicing competitive skills in the game, exercising physical fitness to ensure health is also an important part of their training.
Wang Gang loves to play games, and today it seems that he can also develop as a legitimate profession, but like him who devotes himself day and night, he may pay the physical price no matter what he does, and it is difficult to achieve final success. Not understanding moderation, that's his biggest problem.
Second, his parents did not give Wang Gang understanding and guidance in education, but only blindly suppressed it.
See a lot of news that children are addicted to games are blindly blamed on the game itself, although the game is indeed a problem, but personally feel that parents in the face of this problem, more should not ask society to absolutely ban the game.
But to cultivate children to have the consciousness and self-control ability to stop at the right time, otherwise there are thousands of temptations in society, even if there is no game, how do you ensure that your children will not be attracted to other things and go astray?
Not long ago, I saw a news that parents prepared a deposit for children who graduated from high school to study abroad, and as a result, one summer vacation, the children actually spent hundreds of thousands of dollars almost all, and the parents also went to find the business theory that the children had consumed, asking others to refund.
18 years old, supposedly an adult, but so do not know how to advance and retreat and measure, I think the most important thing parents should do is not to refund, but should be glad that their children are still in the country, in time to find the problem and have the opportunity to educate well.
Hopefully, we can all learn from the tragedies of others and have the ability to make the right choices in the face of temptation ourselves.
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Documentary "Seeing"