Should I get back to gaming?

Hello everyone! I'm going to start this thread like alcohol addict. I stoped playing games one year ago, and from that time I'm trying to do everything to refrain myself from playing. I was an active mmorpg/fps player for about 20 years.

My main reason and what actually made me stop playing, was widely blown ideology that games are waste of time, and because of that I'm missing some important things in my life. This point of view was attacking me on every social media websites/apps that I started to believe that something is wrong with me and I have to change my life or myself.

The change I made, did not really improve my life in any way beside gaining some new skills that I had to put work on. I did not become more social, and my communication with others or the way I approach other people stayed the same. What else can I say?

The one thing what I observe is nostalgia that caught me when I think of past time. Whenever I hear any soundtrack from mmorpg in my head I smile and think that it was a time when I was really happy. It made me happy to chase some virtual things with group of stranger people that I met on the internet. When I think about it, there was not any moment in my life when I was the same happy while doing something different then playing games with my friends.

Right now I think to get back to it, but everything and everyone around me say that it would be bad. I constantly feel guilty just for having thoughts to get back to playing. I constantly hear in my head this empty slogans that I'm wasting my life in games but, is it really waste of time if games making me happy man? Do I really have to be like everyone other people who chase career and money? What are your thoughts about it, and had you ever struggle with your thoughts on the same thing?

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