- Frogwart
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[color=white]35 here, and I'll still be playing Halo 2 when I turn 36 next April (seeing how I was 33 when I picked up Halo and my Xbox--in that order--and I'm still playing with both every week, if not every day).
What you decide to do with your time depends not on what age you are, but on the choices you make with the time you are given.
(Jesus, I sounded like Gandalf there, don't I?)
For example: Christopher Paolini, author of a popular "young adult" novel called Eragon, began writing it after completing high school at the tender age of 15. He's 18 now, and hard at work on the sequel, which will likely be another bestseller.
Tony Hawk, way over 25, still skateboards and (if the endorsements don't lie to us) plays with his video game systems (I don't know him personally, so perhaps I'm generalizing to make a point).
Wilmer Valderrama, "Fez" on That 70's Show, reportedly has an Xbox in his car. Is there really that much gridlock in L.A.?
Ray Bradbury, now 84 years old, still writes every single day, as he's done for the last 72 years. Granted, he, Wilmer, Tony, and Christopher are making money doing what they're doing, and we're not doing anything but being entertained by playing Halo and spending a lot of our free time lurking here on Bungie.net when we're not playing the game (or games) they've created. Not that all those guys play Halo, but they all choose different ways to use their time. I guess what I'm saying is, we're all wasting time, if we choose to look at it that way. I try not to.
Thanks for clarifying that you didn't mean to offend with the parameters of your poll, the_Ender. The way it was worded was questionable, and that's fine, but it obviously ruffled some feathers (which, I'll be the first to admit, is getting harder not to do around here).
Let's be careful out there--err, in here? Wherever.[/color]