Fujiko Suda: Worklife

Japanese boys addicted to PSP

Jan 28, 2008 12:41 pm / 4 comments

My work as con­sul­tant is enhanced enor­mously from my part­ner­ship with my hus­band, my 3 sons and my mother in law who lives with us. I am not a techie per­son. If it wasn’t for my hus­band, I think our lives would not be so full of some­what advanced gad­gets. He brings home the toys, the sons use the toys, and my mother in law and I use them as work/life tools.

Recently, my hus­band has been so enthralled with PSP. Okay, this isn’t so advanced. Lots of peo­ple has had it. But within a cou­ple of months, he’s try­ing out so much stuff with it. He pur­chased one for 2 of the sons, and one even for him­self. And in my eyes, it just seem like boys are addicted to PSP. They watch movies, lis­ten to music, play games, browse inter­net. The pho­to­graph at the top of this entry is my mid­dle son in the mid­dle of the pic­ture, with 4 friends all play­ing with PSP, TV on, all crammed in a room barely 15m2, full of fur­ni­ture. The photo at the bot­tom of this entry is my hus­band just hav­ing a good ol’ time play­ing upload­ing stuff on his PSP.I for­got. My old­est (20 years old) didn’t want PSP. He instead got him­self the lat­est iPod. And he def­i­nitely is addicted to it. Well, he’s addicted to music and fan­tasy world of movies and anime. Just a cou­ple of months ago, he started to have strange depres­sion after a cou­ple of months of stay­ing in his room all the time besides the time he was at school. His PC was his world. So we got the PC out of his room, but now he’s doing most of the stuff he used to do on the PC with his iPod. Geez!!

We are tread­ing a fine line between convenience/fulfillment and overdose/self destruc­tion. I guess his­tor­i­cally, its been one thing or another that we put our­selves in this sit­u­a­tion. I myself will not go any­where with­out my iPod. I am def­i­nitely addicted to music. I am addicted to read­ing good books too, nov­els, busi­ness, what­ever. Haven’t run into any­thing that has the kind of inter­face book has yet. But when it comes, I know I will use it with­out hesitation.

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