I'm 38, never went off gaming since I was 6. I did stop following the news and world affairs, life is too short to get worked up about that. I spend about 2-3 hours a night on games, movies, tv, science articles, standup comedy, whatever I feel like at the time. Mostly games though.
Do whatever helps you relax but get rid of the feeling you always have to be doing something 'useful'. That only leads to stress. Downtime is important.

Let me get this straight. You walk up to what appears to be a nice-looking woman, you say hi, and then BAM find out she's actually *multiple* women?!

Damn! That's intense. It'd be even more intense if you thought they were a singular woman until you got them in bed. Surprise! WomEn!

I think it all has to do with how you manage your time.  Some nights I play video games, sometimes I don't.  I like to read as well, and like you, I have given up reading fiction.  I used to buy Star Wars novels, but eventually I found them to be poorly written/rushed books that made it onto the New York Times Best Sellers list because they had the Star Wars name and characters attached.  However, I love history.  So, I frequently buy history books from all periods of time (Ancient, Medieval, European, US, WWI, WWII, etc.) and I keep one book in my car at all times and read for half an hour a day on my lunch break at work.  I read it till it's done and then I replace it with the next book.  Sometimes I read at home too.  I do watch TV and movies, but I also quench my thirst for knowledge with a good documentary.  I used to buy them to compensate for not being interested in much of what is on the History Channel, but now I have Netflix and that gives me access to a choice of a ton of documentaries.  I don't go out to the movies as much as I used to, but those more a financial consideration than anything else.  Sure, you can always think of a better way to spend your time than what you are doing at that moment.  It's one of the reasons why I have gone away from buying re-iterations of the same Football or Wrestling game year in and year out with little more than a different numbered year at the end of the title in favor of playing more fulfilling genres of games.  But, like I said from the start, it's all about managing your time according to your mood.  I like all the other things I do besides gaming, but I also greatly enjoy playing video games as well, and that's something I haven't grown out of.

i don't really like the absolute or all or nothing point of view on anything,i'm quite old too and have had plenty of years not gaming since i was a kid and i couldn't play footy or hack,slash and bash games like i used to,and sometimes not interested in the next big/new game or whatever like i was but i certainly love my MTG/TBS type strategy games on PS3/PC and PSN games that might not be so big or time consuming and i love point and click adventure,shotgunning zombies and fantasy worlds not that i play them all in the slightest

let alone what you play with kids and family

I'm gone off gaming after gtav. This is probably my last gen of gaming. I agree with your post. So,yeah,I can relate,in some ways.

didnt find better answer to solve your issue than this post.

Huh? no, I was speaking about the universal woman, the universal woman is always written as women.

Wait, so in your original statement, what did you mean by thinking you found a woman, but she was really a "women"?

A "universal" is used to refer to one(or more) unspecified member(s) of an unspecified group. Since it's not specified whether or not the sample is 1 or more person, singular and plurals are acceptable.

Rubbish, whilst trying to explain myself I started to doubt myself, seems I was actually wrong. I was using the "universal" incorrectly, the sentence should have read "They might look like women they are in fact women".

Fail like a Catholic Bear.