Gamer Girls NZ

Some justify it by trying to get paid and earn a living from gaming, others don't even bother trying to justify it and game anyway, even to the detriment of anything actually meaningful to them. But I think that we are able to meet somewhere in the middle and not justify what we do, but actually have a real sense of true meaning and value from being a gamer.

Here is what I mean.

If you are a Mom with little kiddies nipping at your feet everyday, they would just love it if Mom took an hour, sat down on the couch with them and played one of their favorite games with them. Not to win, placate them or get the nasty chore out of the way, but to have meaningful dialogue pass between one another, those hidden and unspoken words that we say to each other but without using our mouths.

Some of those unspoken words that your child would pick up is, 'My Mom really does care about what I like and what I think' or 'I must be important to my Mom cos I know she has work to do but instead she is here doing something that I like to do' or even, 'Wow my Mom she so loves me, she takes time to play with me everyday, its awesome'.

Don't underestimate how meaningful these types of dialogues are to your kids, they help your child to grow up feeling wanted, loved and apart of something bigger than they are, and we all have a deep need and sense to belong. Those words could have implanted in them a belief, something that describes the reality of their life in the world. A meaningful belief.

There is very little difference in the meaning of say being a landscape painter or a gamer, they both tend to be something a person enjoys and spends time mastering, they are a pursuit of interest, and for some a pursuit in economy but all in all, they also can be a pursuit of meaning in life, its just about taking the time to look and find it.