“Over 7 billion players online now! Moving towards a future of infinite possibilities – Create a story that is truly your own!”
… Reality.
From a broader perspective, our precious lives are but a game.
Just hearing that attractive slogan makes us want to imagine being part of it.
Exactly as the title states, the game called “Life”, is truly an epic game that lasts for a lifetime.
Game start.
First, you cooperate with your parents and automatically begin the process of character customization.
After receiving blessings from your father, mother and many others in a touching opening cutscene, you can finally begin controlling your main character.
Even though the controls take a while to get used to, you eventually learn them, and you are thrown into a hub of social competition – school.
The realm where this game takes place in – Earth.
We were thrown in a corner of this gigantic map, and faced a massive sandbox game. We saw the slogan and were instantly hooked, but we quickly noticed –
-- “We were tricked”.
Infinite possibilities – Well, this statement may not be false.
But the catch to this game was, no one told us that we could do things our own way.
Disadvantages were caused by insufficient character levels, experience points, funds and not to mention spawn location.
Seemingly endless shackles ruined the freedom allowed in this game.
However, we continued to work hard.
Trusting in the fanciful slogan, we constantly fell down and picked ourselves up.
We truly believed that we possessed infinite potential.
So, we engrossed ourselves in raising our levels, farming experience and earning money.
Despite our complaints about the unfair conditions given due to the “Talents” or “Qualities” and other skills we received during random character customization, we did not give up, but relied on “Effort” to increase our experience points, endlessly working hard – That’s the kind of game “Life” is.
This really is a story that motivates and touches the heart, isn’t it?
- But, that has no meaning at all.
No matter how high your score is, you will never be able to beat this game.
This is because even though your level, experience points and funds have reached the cap, you will still suffer – in this case being ostracized.
Why?
- Because of putting in “Too much effort”.
Because even if it is something acquired by “Effort”.
Others will still claim it is completely unfair.
When you own “Something that others do not”, they will undoubtedly claim that it is unfair.
Because of that, we were “Punished”.
Receiving punishment from seven billion other players, shackles were imposed on us.
At this point, a thought flashed through our heads –
- Does freedom truly exist in this game?
No matter what choices we made, we would still receive criticisms from society, other players or from god-knows-where.
Even if we accepted the criticisms and continued on with the game, as long as we once again wished to achieve success, the same fate would befall upon us.
Looking back on it all, we realized –
Our actions were not carried out upon free will.
The path we have walked, was only a pre-regulated path built according to a combination of the wishes and commands from others.
When we realized were merely – “Walking a path built by others”…
Our suspicions were only confirmed.
No mistake about it, this massive scam called “Life” was no doubt a massive and vast sandbox game.
The thing is – The players were not ourselves.
So we unconsciously lowered our heads and looked down at our hands.
- Looking at those hands bound by infinite but yet infinitesimally small ropes, our suspicions turned into confirmations.
So we unconsciously surveyed our surroundings.
- Looking at the others around us bound by infinite yet infinitesimally small ropes, our confirmations turned into understanding.
As long as we shook our heads, we would hear creaking noises, which was when the gamer siblings realized.
All the players were actually puppets. Everyone was adhering to the countenances of others and fulfilling their preset role in this game called “Life”. Just like puppets in a puppet show – Just like NPCs.
So, after you’ve considered the above, let me just ask one question.
“For what reason are you living?”
- Is your answer to this question, truly based on your own free will?
… Reality.
From a broader perspective, our precious lives are but a game.
Just hearing that attractive slogan makes us want to imagine being part of it.
Exactly as the title states, the game called “Life”, is truly an epic game that lasts for a lifetime.
Game start.
First, you cooperate with your parents and automatically begin the process of character customization.
After receiving blessings from your father, mother and many others in a touching opening cutscene, you can finally begin controlling your main character.
Even though the controls take a while to get used to, you eventually learn them, and you are thrown into a hub of social competition – school.
The realm where this game takes place in – Earth.
We were thrown in a corner of this gigantic map, and faced a massive sandbox game. We saw the slogan and were instantly hooked, but we quickly noticed –
-- “We were tricked”.
Infinite possibilities – Well, this statement may not be false.
But the catch to this game was, no one told us that we could do things our own way.
Disadvantages were caused by insufficient character levels, experience points, funds and not to mention spawn location.
Seemingly endless shackles ruined the freedom allowed in this game.
However, we continued to work hard.
Trusting in the fanciful slogan, we constantly fell down and picked ourselves up.
We truly believed that we possessed infinite potential.
So, we engrossed ourselves in raising our levels, farming experience and earning money.
Despite our complaints about the unfair conditions given due to the “Talents” or “Qualities” and other skills we received during random character customization, we did not give up, but relied on “Effort” to increase our experience points, endlessly working hard – That’s the kind of game “Life” is.
This really is a story that motivates and touches the heart, isn’t it?
- But, that has no meaning at all.
No matter how high your score is, you will never be able to beat this game.
This is because even though your level, experience points and funds have reached the cap, you will still suffer – in this case being ostracized.
Why?
- Because of putting in “Too much effort”.
Because even if it is something acquired by “Effort”.
Others will still claim it is completely unfair.
When you own “Something that others do not”, they will undoubtedly claim that it is unfair.
Because of that, we were “Punished”.
Receiving punishment from seven billion other players, shackles were imposed on us.
At this point, a thought flashed through our heads –
- Does freedom truly exist in this game?
No matter what choices we made, we would still receive criticisms from society, other players or from god-knows-where.
Even if we accepted the criticisms and continued on with the game, as long as we once again wished to achieve success, the same fate would befall upon us.
Looking back on it all, we realized –
Our actions were not carried out upon free will.
The path we have walked, was only a pre-regulated path built according to a combination of the wishes and commands from others.
When we realized were merely – “Walking a path built by others”…
Our suspicions were only confirmed.
No mistake about it, this massive scam called “Life” was no doubt a massive and vast sandbox game.
The thing is – The players were not ourselves.
So we unconsciously lowered our heads and looked down at our hands.
- Looking at those hands bound by infinite but yet infinitesimally small ropes, our suspicions turned into confirmations.
So we unconsciously surveyed our surroundings.
- Looking at the others around us bound by infinite yet infinitesimally small ropes, our confirmations turned into understanding.
As long as we shook our heads, we would hear creaking noises, which was when the gamer siblings realized.
All the players were actually puppets. Everyone was adhering to the countenances of others and fulfilling their preset role in this game called “Life”. Just like puppets in a puppet show – Just like NPCs.
So, after you’ve considered the above, let me just ask one question.
“For what reason are you living?”
- Is your answer to this question, truly based on your own free will?
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