Our life is like a game, specifically, an MMORPG game.
MMORPG stands for a massively multiplayer online role-playing game where players advance through a story quest gaining experience points that improve their attributes, skills, and abilities.
If you consider your world as a part of an MMORPG game, then you are player number 4 billion three hundred and one. You are introduced into this world at level 0, with no idea about the game itself. You start off as fairly weak and untrained. And you don’t even know what role you will be playing in the world. You’re forced to go through tiring tutorials on how to move, how to speak, and how to interact with other players in the world before you are given the independence to get out there on your own.
Every character in this game progress through experience points. An experience point quantifies a player’s life experience and progression through the game. Experience points are generally awarded when a character overcomes obstacles, completes missions, and discovers new things on the journey. And when sufficient experience points are obtained, the character levels up, achieving the next stage of character development.
Everything you do in your day-to-day life gives you experience points. Did you learn to cook for the first time? That’s 500 exp points right there. Did you buy your own watch? That’s 1000 exp points. Did you get your job after failing 4 interviews? That’s 10000 points. Everything you accomplish earns you points and the opportunities to earn these points are limitless.
After a certain level of proficiency, though, it becomes harder for you to gain points. You have to keep practicing and collecting smaller amounts of points through consistency and dedication. And this is the stage where most people give up. Once the rewards slow down, players lose interest and stop working on their skills. And eventually, they feel like the game is pointless because you’re not making any progress in it.
Contrary to how you level up when you reach a certain collection of points, in real life, we level up every year. If you ask me what level I am in, I’m at level 23 right now because I’m 23 years old. It’s a very fun way to look at life because when you look at it this way, you realize that you’re living a part of a bigger journey and there is so much more for you to come.
Take a look at your progress from level 10 to level 20, for example. You will literally feel like you’ve undergone so much character development. From being stupidly immature to learning how to manage your own expenses, from chasing butterflies to chasing things that really matter to you, from roaming around pointlessly to trying to explore the whole world, you’re character development is unique and stands out in its own beautiful way. What’s more? You’ve still got a long way of leveling up to do. Whether you’re at level 20, level 30, or level 40, you’re still not done. The game isn’t over yet. You may think that you have seen all that the game has to offer. But that will never be the case.
There are territories that you haven’t seen, skills you haven’t learned, items you haven’t collected, and there are people you haven’t met. There is a vast galaxy of experiences waiting for you. You’re nothing more than a speck of dust on a universe of this grand scale and yet, you have within yourself, a complete universe by itself.
Sometimes we secretly hope that there is a grand purpose waiting for us and we should constantly be on the lookout to find it. But when we think of our life as a game, as characters in a game, we become more capable of finding the true purpose of our life.
“What if the purpose of this game?”
“To see what we are capable of. And to have fun, of course.”
When it comes to games, the primary goal is the development of the player’s character in a way that allows him/her to be whatever they want. Do you want the character to be a sportsperson? Then make choices that allow you to become one. Focus on skills related to sports, focus on your physical strength, your health points, and your sports equipment rather than focusing on unrelated skills and items.
If you’re choosing your skills and items very carefully in games, why can’t you do the same in your own life? I know that we are limited by the rules and expectations of the people around us. But even games have rules and things that cannot be done. There are just as many unrealistic standards and expectations from games as we have in life. But that doesn’t stop us from making the best out of the game we’re playing, right?
What are you doing as a character on this ball, we call Earth, to make the best out of this game, we call life?
It would be a pity for a person to retire without knowing what their character was truly capable of.
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