There are some * ahem * activities I could do for hours, but I'd certainly get tired, but we'll keep this PG...
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There are several things that I like to do for hours and that I would keep on doing if I didn't get tired, like metal detecting:
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That's not a picture of me, but I do really enjoy spending hours metal detecting, finding treasures. The anticipation of finding something valuable is super fun. The other really fun part about it is guessing what it was that I found. The imagination can run wild...is it part of a pirate ship? Will I find their buried treasure?!
There's actually only one activity that I can think of that I can do for hours on end without getting tired, and that's playing video games. It has to be the right ones, though. I love racing car games! Asphalt 9 is the most current one I've been playing. I enjoy the challenge. I get an adrenaline rush every time I play one and it can last til the wee hours of the morning if I wasn't careful.
However, I'm a video game addict...
A few years back, I had 3 games on my phone. One was Modern War, if I remember right. One was a card-like game with fights, etc. I don't remember the name, but I was in the top 500 of the world. Lastly, I had Crime City, I think...which is another version of Modern War. I used to play all the time. I'd play when I woke up, when I sat on the toilet, when I was eating, when I was driving to work, when I was at work, when I was driving home from work, when I got home from work, while talking to my wife, while eating dinner with my kids, while getting ready for bed...I'd wake up in the middle of the night, go to the bathroom, and run out of "energy" so that when I woke up, I could be refreshed again, but win as much as possible so I'd never have to use in-game currency. It was bad. One day, I had a scare. My job seemed to be in the balance for some other reason. I was actually excelling at my job, funny enough, as I'd work whenever my 3 games had run out of "energy" or whatever the unit was called within each game. At that point, and after weeks/months of hearing people complain that I wasn't paying attention to them (though I would hold complete conversations while playing), I quit cold turkey. I tried to sell my accounts to no offers. I deleted the games and have never looked back. I just don't have games on my phone. The closest thing I have to it is Duolingo...but I am learning a foreign language with it and I do it for 5-10 minutes a day...hardly a game.
So while I could do it for hours without tiring, and I've proven I could, I choose not to...I do play the Nintendo Switch with my kids, but I make sure that I can leave the console at any time I'm beckoned and I've made up my mind that at any point, I can let the electronic version of me die, even if I'm in the middle of something "really important" because in reality...that virtual game is not important!
What could you spend hours doing without tiring? Have you been addicted to something so much that you had to quit cold turkey?