The Biggest Difference Between Life and Video Games
A lot of us have grown up on video games. Doesn’t matter what video games- Space Invaders in the 80’s or Halo 2 in recent times. All video games, from all time, have one thing in common: They all start easy and get harder. The first level, the first boss, the first adventure, all of them are very easy, just a warm up. After that, the game gets harder, but that’s OK, because you’re already confident you can beat the next boss. You’ve already done it- it’s logical that you could do it again.
Real life doesn’t work like that. Life starts hard and gets easier. Your first date, first kiss, first friendship,first company are always the hardest. It all gets easier from there. And that’s the biggest difference between life and video games.
Having grown up playing video games, sometimes we don’t realize that it will only get easier from here, and we give up, just like we would give up if the first level of a video game was almost impossible. But this difference between life and video games is really quite good for us, if we would just become aware of it. There is no menacing,scary,powerful big boss looming at the end of the journey- in real life, we beat the “final boss” as soon as we start.
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juan
I’m not sure whether you’re young or naive or both, but the firsts you mention are all experiences younger people have, and you make no mention of issues and troubles more often faced as you get into your middle years: committed relationships like marriage, having and raising children to adulthood, living long-term on a budget, and (for many people) severe illness. These things are hardly easy to being with, but I don’t think you will find many people who would say they get _easier_ as you go along; most would likely tell you it’s quite the opposite.
This is not to say that games imitate life or the challenges that come with it, but your claim suggests you may have not yet experienced many of life’s greatest challenges.
Thanks for the comment, Brett.
I was going more along the lines of the “first time is always the hardest”-including marriage, I assume.
I think they are similar… life does get harder as you grow older - you start out as a kid without many responsibilities, mainly just having fun and enjoying life. And as you grow older the more things are thrown at you, mainly to maintain your own living… gradually separating from your parents = more responsibilities.
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u and i have same thinking about the game