Living Life Like A Video Game (Creating Adventure)

The concept of living life like a video game might seem strange or faddish, but it’s really not that strange of a concept at all. We have all kinds of abilities and talents inside of us that we are always pressing like buttons. Personally, I believe technology is only now being able to create things, in this case video games, that show us more about the human experience than was ever possible before. The difference between video games and the human experience is that the amount of buttons we humans have available to press within us is seemingly limitless. That’s what makes life so exciting and why diversity is so important. Alone we’re limited, but together we’re limitless. 

In every video game though, there are heroes and villains, successes and failures. For us, finding these villains to face is a massive work in progress. Often times, history has shown humans to be relatively mediocre at defining our villains. Usually, people pick someone they don’t like, not necessarily whether those people are good or evil, and life then becomes the really powerful versus the powerless. It’s really sad. History has shown that powerful people pick on others, refuse to empower them, belittle them, manipulate them, and then finally try to crush them. Not all of this is in means of physical brutality, but in fact, mostly it’s in oppression of just trying to live a regular life. In fact, that mentality I just described is actually our villain. We’re better than that — the powerful versus the less powerful.

So, what happens when we start fighting against this prideful and egomaniacal way of life that keeps creating villains? Well, we gain understanding, respect, truth, love, provision, and unity. It’s strange how much people fear those things. Usually that’s because to gain those things requires compromise, or people fear limited supplies so they refuse the idea all together and just seek power for their family and those they like. Basically, it all comes down to fear. We like to stick to our guns and be the one that people look up to and praise. So, to accomplish that egomaniacal goal we stick to our guns and empower those who are like us. It’s a self-serving god-complex that destroys the diversity that actually empowers us. 

Nevertheless, let’s say that we do properly identify our villain — this beast of divisiveness, this enemy of healing everyone freely. Let’s say that we do conquer that villain. Then what? Then we are living our lives constantly sharpening and improving our abilities, unifying in our diversity that helps us all grow, finding common ground that all of us can stand upon in spite of our differences, and overall becoming heroes that are an asset instead of a destroyer. In essence, we become heroes in a virtual reality video game called life.

I don’t want to sound all negative on human history though, as there are countless heroes who have sacrificed their own lives to make the world a better place. Those kinds of people are constantly gaining understanding about how this way of life works for all of us, and then they reveal it to us. People only latch onto ideas that they understand and fit into their current way of life, and if they are able to think about it in simple enough ways in their own mind, that’s when change happens. It’s basically the process of self-inception that heroes throughout history have helped us to imagine being like.

So, to finish up, the simplicity of this idea of living life like a video game is about increasing our abilities/talents; conquering the enemy of healing, respect, and common ground; and then continuing going deeper and deeper into these truths in these times of limitless capabilities afforded to us in this brand new computer age. We live in amazing times, and in order to keep it amazing and make our relationships better, we have to work at it. None of this stuff happens by accident. It takes very focused care to maintain and enhance this way of life we now have. It’s always been that way, except now we have more that we can do than ever before to enhance our lives and free us from tyranny, even though it’s sometimes easier to think the opposite. It’s all about perspective, which is a talent all to itself.

To help you in this journey, I would encourage you to write down and draw pictures of your abilities, dreams, our common ground, and all those simple yet profound things that life encapsulates. It’s exciting to turn life into an adventure game. It already is on its own, but what I mean is that it’s much better when you’re actually aware of the game and actively know how to play it. Otherwise, games are easily quit and forgotten. Let’s not be those kinds of people. This video game of life is very rewarding and meant to be unifying. Now, have fun out there, heroes!