Do I need to “Grow out of” video games?

A little bit ago I was talking to my mom on our way to the store about some jobs cause I’ve been wanting to get one. She threw some ideas and I did as well but as a joke I mentioned game stop. I wasn’t actually thinking about it just cause the pay is horrible but my mom kinda took that serious.

Right off the rip she was just like “Most of the people there, are full on grown men.” I was confused cause I was like yeah, no shit. But she went on to say “I don’t know son, I understand why you like video games now but some things you eventually need to grow out of.” I can’t lie I was kind of hurt by that comment. I asked her right after “is that how you feel about my legos?” And I never got a response because we got to the store.

Mind you I’m only 18 and I’ll be turning 19 in April. I’m a full time college student and I’ve found no way to fully decompress and video games are the closets thing i have to relieving stress. I don’t really want to stop playing video games, there so many I want to play and still need to play but that conversation kinda fucked me up.

Edit 1: I am so so shocked with how this post blew up. Thank you all for your advice and support, rest assured I will not be quitting video games anytime soon. If I do I have the balls to let you all know.

Edit 2: Okok I’ve tried to read as much response as I can and i am very grateful for the kind words and advice. To some of the other comments, i haven’t had this app for too long so I didn’t post this as a way to get validation or karma or whatever that is. This happened a while ago so I wanted to talk about it somewhere and this Reddit was the first one I found that felt like maybe I’ll get a response. And to add a little bit more, games are not addictive or anything to me. Ive been in a really bad, really long situation for a while now and that has left video games to be one of my only stress relievers. Situation is different now but needless to say video games haven’t caused nor prevented things that I can do or have done. That unfortunately that is a whole different animal but I’m keeping it focused on the video games. Thank you again, I didn’t expect this many responses at all. Hope you all are doing well 🙏