“It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.”

No one wants to admit that they can be easily manipulated. The prospect of someone underestimating the domination of words is what allows me to play life like a game.

Word choice is the key to role playing games; that’s what human interaction is, a role playing game. In order to get far in the game, one must dress the part, get a few cheats, persuade the masses and enable fellow players for personal welfare. All words, no action seems to illustrate a reaction and a stab at you figuratively hurts just as much as it would literally. Playing a game with someone can show more about them than a life time of conversations. Behavior, strategy, response, persuasion and placement during a game is how you read into people. Friendships, relationships and emotions have all been frazzled over a mere game. Life is meant to be played like a game; know who and what you’re playing.

Religion is a really straight forward game if you follow and don’t stray to far from the rules. If someone follows the proper paths, overcomes hardship and leaves something worth reliving behind…well he’ll enter heaven and the game ends. The skepticism of religion is just another game. It’s a game of hide and seek that never really ends. Seeking, quitting, changing the rules that were never really established to begin with.

Whether the game be a video game or a board game, it’s all competition. Competition against someone else, society, the person you love or yourself-level up, sacrifice, kill for fun-it’s all contrary to. Who is winning? If you go by the possibility that winning isn’t always the objective when it comes to certain games, well you’re probably losing. Turning your head all the way around, noticing that everyone is in the game and you’re on the bench being part of the team isn’t how you play the game of life. It must make you feel like a complete piece of shit. You’re a shadow of a shadow. You’ll out age the game, get started on the game of life, it’s somewhat like monopoly, and be left with no money, estate or time. The time is fading away with a calm but blistering tick, tock and someone has to win.