365 days played - good or bad?

Today I hit 365 days played on Navimie alone!  That is one year playing, with no sleep!  The thought is boggling!

This could be taken one of two ways...

Those who love WoW like me, would say "Grats!" as it shows the amount of time and dedication I have put into one toon.  Which you would see on her achievements (massive time wasting!!).  I am amazed that I have spent one year of my life playing this game.  I think of all the friends I've made, all the things I've seen that have fired my imagination in rhyme, story and song.  I have a bunch of friends with whom I have a common interest, and I play my character reasonably well, and know a few things about dungeons, bosses... areas of interest... NPCs named after pop culture... and have built up a massive collection of pets and mounts and other ridiculous vanity items that clutter my bank and void storage.

Now here are some useless statistics some of which are quite amusing:

• Gold earned from auctions: 4405g 92s 51c
• Yes, I can't make money on the AH to save my life....
• Bandages used: 3 
• I'm a healer!  Why would I need this? 
• Total Deaths: 7477
• Deaths from falling: 73
• Deaths from fatigue: 7
• My daughter's fault, I'm sure
• Flight Paths taken: 899
• Number of hugs: 752
• Total waves: 1255
• Materials produced from disenchanting: 10604
• Items disenchanted: 5531
• Fish and other things caught: 17038

Now the flipside, would be people telling me how I've wasted my life, when I could have been doing something more "constructive".  And here it comes, what people PERCEIVE as being a constructive use of your time.  We spend 1/4-1/3 of our day sleeping.  Or you could say we spend 2 hours a day eating.  Or 3 hours a day reading a book.  It annoys me how society could think what I do is a waste of time!  Wow is like any other hobby, you invest time in it and you see rewards.

One of the lucky things is that I can actually do other things while I'm on WoW.  I do often get on the game while I'm at work, usually to do small things, like browse the AH, do my Loremaster, or archaeology - those 5 minute WoW things that don't require a great deal of concentration or a focussed chunk of time.  So it's not like I just spent all that time sitting in front of the computer not doing anything, I could have been eating dinner, being at work... 

Since I started playing in September 2005, I guess that's almost 7 years of WoW!  It makes me wonder what I'll be doing in 7 more years... will I still be here playing this?  I suspect that I might, in fact, if WoW still exists, I probably would.

Happy one year of being played, Navimie!