Cyber games have been the hype since Singapore organised the World Cyber Games.
Kids, adults, females have their fair share.
Sometimes I wonder on our lives, operating like a cyber game, or any computer game for that matter. Going through every stage, accomplishing some tasks, gaining some energy/money/weapons along the way, promoted to another stage, accomplishing another set of tasks, gaining more energy/money/weapons. By failing the stage, you get to replay it again, losing some of the money/energy/weapons gained. The only difference, we can restart the whole game from the beginning, but we cannot restart our life again. We can fail in our life and try again, but not restart.
Assuming I'm playing my life as a "game", I should be in the marriage stage. As I lived through married life, kisses will be as reward when the dinner is well done, the love bar decreases when the toilet is not cleaned. A bouquet of flowers when the laundry was well done.
Vice versa for the husbands, no kisses when the sink is still clogged, no hugs when the light bulb is not changed, no sex when there is no income.
Once we've accomplished enough kisses, hugs, love bar and sex, then we can proceed to the next stage - Parent stage.
Of course, we have to set the parameters before we begin.
I wonder if my 'Ang' is game for this. Are you?
Kids, adults, females have their fair share.
Sometimes I wonder on our lives, operating like a cyber game, or any computer game for that matter. Going through every stage, accomplishing some tasks, gaining some energy/money/weapons along the way, promoted to another stage, accomplishing another set of tasks, gaining more energy/money/weapons. By failing the stage, you get to replay it again, losing some of the money/energy/weapons gained. The only difference, we can restart the whole game from the beginning, but we cannot restart our life again. We can fail in our life and try again, but not restart.
Assuming I'm playing my life as a "game", I should be in the marriage stage. As I lived through married life, kisses will be as reward when the dinner is well done, the love bar decreases when the toilet is not cleaned. A bouquet of flowers when the laundry was well done.
Vice versa for the husbands, no kisses when the sink is still clogged, no hugs when the light bulb is not changed, no sex when there is no income.
Once we've accomplished enough kisses, hugs, love bar and sex, then we can proceed to the next stage - Parent stage.
Of course, we have to set the parameters before we begin.
I wonder if my 'Ang' is game for this. Are you?
1 comment:
hello.
i just read this entry and felt like commenting. bu tu bu kuai you know? (no spit no fast) i'm not even sure if you'll see this, but thats not my purpose here. i just find it necessary that i unload something.
in many stories we've heard the same moral message: that life has no reset button. it's a let's-live-our-lives-to-the-fullest call that has since become a cliche. still, i agree fully with it because as we progress in the stages of this game we call life, eventually the game must come to an end. your top score cannot be bettered by yourself any longer because there is no reset button in life. whether that high score matters or not is another matter altogether but this crammed comment box does not allow me to comment on that comfortably.
but what i was thinking about, is if either of us would actually be willing to hit that reset button if it ever existed. we could go back and change things we think can be made good, but as all time travel movies worth their salt would tell you, butterfly effects cannot be predicted.
in fact, i am thankful that there is no reset button in life. human existence is not a pleasant one. ironically, it is the same intellect that put us above all other animals and gives us the convenience we now enjoy that inflicts on us what religions and philosophiers term "human suffering". i for one do not wish to experience everything all over again. as it is, every suffering, every tear, every joy and every laughter are all part and parcel of life. they may not be perfect, but they are enough. nothing goes on and doesnt affect us. a simple moment of regret at having paid 20cents extra for that bottle of drink does have its long term effects if we think about it.
game? i agree. life is but a game. there is no reset button. and i'm glad it doesnt.
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