by Ha Nguyen

Created on: June 03, 2010

In my country, people, especially adults, think that children, who are in teenage period, should focus on their studies rather than the other things else. However, they still favor their kids to enjoy such healthy leisure-time activities like playing football, tennis, badminton, etc. yet, the choice belongs to those teens; they can choose their adorable things to do and to play. There are numerous kinds of recreation for young people, and video games seem to be one of the most favorite ones of almost teenagers. Nevertheless, playing video games can be good and can be bad for adolescence to a certain extent.

            On the one hand, video games can be good. Though young people are motivated to study hard by themselves or by their loved ones, they still work very hard for their studies these days. They even work harder whenever exams are coming up; they have to focus all their energy on studying and it is easy for them to be stressed and depressed. Therefore, they need to take a little rest while working. Then, teens choose such a suitable way for them to free their mind ; a few like to walk out to enjoy fresh air, some do exercises, many listen to music or watch movies, and others play video games. Playing video games is good in this situation. After a long time working hard, young people could be relaxed, comfortable and joyful with it. Just insert the disc of game they love and play with all their attention; soon they will forget such difficult and heavy lessons or homework; their mind must be loosen; they could stay away from stress and tense; they have time to recharge energy and continue to study more effectively.

            On the other hand, video games can be bad. It turns to bad if teenagers abuse it. Many teens stay for hours, for days in front of the computer or TV screens to play games. Soon they become addicted to video games and can not stop playing it. Now, video games are harmful to them at both studies and health. Youth distracts their studies, plays hooky, drops out. Consequently, they get a bad grade in class. As to their health, sitting all day long to play games causes them to feel tired, even exhausted and weakens their eyes, not to mention the big waste of money and time on it. Badly, teenagers are affected by lots of violent scenes in the games and they grow aggressive with others that forces them to hit or even kill someone they don’t like by things they have learned from those games. Also, several teens are obsessed by the games and they have a great depression that leads them to suicide or kill themselves without reasons. In addition, a few are dead because they don’t eat, don’t drink, don’t sleep, don’t rest but playing for such a long time and their health turns to worse and worse until they are exhausted to death.

            To sum up, all things has two aspects: one is good and the other is not good. For example, a car is a thing that helps you to travel faster in comfort and pleasure; hence, it also plays a part in causing air pollution by its waste. Similarly, video games do the same thing, too. It can help teenagers feel relaxed and joyful, but it may also damage their health, their mind, and even their lives.

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