I recently read an article that talked about rock climbers who could dead hang for up to six minutes. Dead hanging means you grab onto something with the tips of your fingers and support the weight of your entire body with just the strength in your hands.
This guy was doing it for six minutes!
This is why I’ll never be a professional gamer.
To be able to hang off a cliff supported by the strength of one’s pinkies means that a climber must spend months – if not years – training muscles to perform special tasks. Though they use different muscles, professional gamers are required to put in a similar amount of training to make sure they’re operating at peak condition.
I’m not saying I don’t think I could be good enough to be a professional gamer. I’m saying I’m just not interested.
I don’t have the dedication it takes to spend night after night playing the same game. I like variety, and I grow to dislike a game if I grind on it too long. Playing the same game for 6-8 hours a day without break is the quickest way to kill a game for me.
So to all of you who professional gamers out there, I admire your dedication. The rest of us will just have to be happy playing more that one game for the rest of our lives.
Actually, maybe I’m just not good enough.