I am Mansur Nasibov. I am 17 years old. I live in the village Mollaoglu. When I started playing video games I was about 4 years old. My family bought a computer and my elder brothers were playing and I got really interested. I was watching them. My brothers wouldn’t allow me to play on the computer. At first I just played for half an hour. Then I spent up to 2 hours a day playing on the computer.
When I was 6, we had to move from Russia to Georgia. And we brought the computer with us. In Georgia I had no friends yet. And I spent whole days playing on the computer.
Soon I went to school. I was 10 when we moved to Russia again. We bought a new computer and we had the Internet, too. So, I started to play online games. I got new virtual friends. For a year and a half I didn’t go to school at all. I was spending my 12 hours playing. It stressed me out. I still had no friends. I couldn’t even go to the market and ask a question. I was ashamed to talk to strangers.
When I got 13 we moved to Georgia again. But this time my family didn’t bring the computer with us. In 2015 a new training center for kids was opened in Mollaoglu. They called it New Thinking Institute - NTI. I joined them. That’s where I got real friends. Of course I was still playing games on my mobile, but I only spent 2 hours a day. After some years we became like a family at NTI. I joined so many activities. I played only 2 hours a week by then. Now it’s even less than that, maybe half an hour a week. That’s all.
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Elder Meyxanimov