Life is Nothing But A Game

In class we have been discussing a lot about games. Well, life is a game. There are different games people can play depending what their goal in life is. Most want to get rich and peruse their dream job so they focus on their academics. Some just do not want to die alone so their goal is to find that significant other. Some just want to live their life to the fullest, so they travel everywhere and do things that other people would not do in their daily lives. And some are even just trying to survive. But whatever their goals might be, they have to play the game. It might not seem like it, but every day they are competing against somebody else no matter if it's getting a job position or fighting over a girl or boy. it is exactly like the board game called the Game of Life. Although the events on it might not be the same, it teaches them how life is a game of chance. They can get lucky and win the lottery or have bad luck and a hurricane hits their house. They can have a baby when they least expect it or they can not have any children at all. They are all players in this society, something someone might do can have a butterfly effect on someone else.

Those who do not think they are playing a game, live in a world by themselves with no human contact. If they are living in society, then they are playing the game that society is playing. The goal of games is to compete, and thats exactly what everyone in society has to do in order to reach their goal. Now we can break down this big game of life into sub-games. The sub-games are the more insignificant like getting rejected for their part-time job, or not winning their school spelling bee.

In life we win some and we lose some of the "sub-games" we play within it. But we also have to take a look at the big of game of life. Are we satisfied about what we have experienced through all of our years? It's similar to painting a picture. As a whole painting, it might look beautiful. But if you break it down and examine the details you might see some really nice strokes as well as some mistakes here and there. Or it can be the other way around, the painting might not be as beautiful, but if examined we can see some of the most beautiful technique and strokes of paint on some parts of the painting. There is also a saying, "they might have won the war, but they have lost the battles". I believe that saying is definitely plays in with the game of life. The question is do we care more for the war we have won or do we care more for the battles we have won?