The game of life is hard to play. This is most certainly true, and I don’t think many out there would disagree with the fact that life has it’s ups and downs and that the downs really do suck while the ups are usually just nice. Some people may disagree with the idea that life is a game, but it most certainly can be symbolised as a game, and no I’m not talking about that crappy board game LIFE (that game is really not very good) no I’m talking about that game which is simply passed around by word of mouth, by the willingness of people to trap others in a never ending game which is philisophicaly quite entertaining but in reality can just get on your nerves. Yes, I speak of… “The Game.”
For those of you who do NOT know what the game is it is very simple. The aim of the game is to not think abou the game for as long as possible. So if you weren’t playing you are now!…but it’s probably going to be hard to play while reading this article so just wait till you’re done. If you think of the game you shout out “I LOST THE GAME” and thus everyone around you will also lose the game and it just keeps on going like that. Now recently someone came up with a way to actually win the game…but it’s bollocks and I’ll get onto it in a bit.
But firstly let me tell you a little bit about what the game is all about. The game, in a nutshell, is a metaphor for life. I know corny blah blah blah but in all honesty I think the game in its originality is quite a good metaphor. Everyone can play but no one can win and while you yourself can be the reason for your own lose it can also be those around you which drag you to your ultimate demise! See the fact that the game is unwinable is in itself symbolic and that others can screw you over is just taken straight out of life! It’s depressing but that’s what I like about it, it is one of those things that go around among young people which actually has some thought put into it…at least for some people. Then the following happened…
Some people decided that the game was flawed, afterall there was no way to win. So a new rule was added if you saw a website that said you won the game WITHOUT thinking of the game, well then you won. This addition to the game ruined the metaphor. In real life at the end of the day, at the end of the road, at the end of the rainbow and at the curtain call we all lose, we all die and there is no way to win. Up until recently there was no way to win the game either which as one of the major points which made it a symbol, but with the addition of a way to win the whole metaphor comes tumbling down.
So the question now is, why? why did someone out there feel a eed to add this horrible element to the game, where they afraid of a game with no possible way to win? were the afraid of its symboic nature? possibly they just din’t understand it or possibly they didn’t see the metaphor at all! The answers are uncountable but the majority of them lead to th idea that someone was scared(probably not on a visable level but a subconsious one) and rightly so, but changing the game will not save you.
Now, I’ve just read over that paragraph and realised it’s pretty depressing so let me leave you ith this. The game is merely a symbol a way for us to realise that at the end of the day we all lose, BUT thats not the only thing that the game teaches us. The game also shows us that you can live life and know you’re going to lose no matter what and still have fun, the game of life is fun and while when you lose there is a sense of annoyance there is also a hint of fun and nearly always someone will laugh. So to relay this to life, in the end we will all die, that is a sad truth, but just because we will lose does not mean we should not play life, we can still have fun. And sometimes it’s hard, sometimes you just want to give up but if you hold on you will find that there is always something out there to live for. HAPPY LIVING
Oh I forgot please do not consider yourself finished with the game if you find that website that means you’ve won, it’s like saying “oh look at me I’v won life!…why?…I dunno some random dude said so.”