“Play your own game”
— E11even
I always have been inspired by this quote, and this is due to my philosophy for life that illustrates life as a game, winning at life is a cumulative process, with ups and downs. And the more experienced you get, the wiser and more professional you will become around other players.
This game consists of three Levels, each one with a certain difficulty, and a certain amount of experience. To make the victory… you’ll need to understand the objectives, how to play, and of course… how to win!
First play
Join the game
First of all, you gotta join the game by opening your eyes and discovering the world and people around you, those who will become your lovers, and those who will become your enemies. You still just discovering with your eyes, you didn’t touch the mouse yet as well as the keyboard. As you experience, you’ll know how to use them very well.
Watch the cutscenes
every time you join a game, there must be cutscenes…
Cutscene: a sequence in a video-game that helps the player to understand the story, have an idea on the objectives of the game, and maybe give instructions on how to play the game.
Your parents will mostly be the ones creating the cutscenes in the first moments of your life. Taking care of you, giving you ideas on how to play the game, and its Objectives but in a soft way. they will keep real and deep Lessons until life gives you access to use the mouse and the Keyboard to play by yourself.
Level 1: Childhood
The game instructions
done with cutscenes? Congratulations, you’ve advanced to the Childhood level, it’s your first level, here you’ll be spawned in the open world (EARTH), buuuuut… you still don’t know how to play, you have some abilities, and you know how to use the keyboard and the mouse. Here the game starts to display instructions and show you step-by-step how to play the game, Well parents do the job, and maybe also older siblings can give you instructions.
If you’re lucky enough, you’ll be continuously instructed until the next level of your Game.
Choose the path and the difficulty
This level is unique being the part where you will try anything for the first time, and discover so many things that will by the end help you find your Passion, and choose your path in life.
But be careful! the Developer and the ones giving you instructions have shown you the best ways to choose your path, the missions and the challenges you will be talking through in your life, and the difficulty as well. the hardest your game is, the more rewarding it becomes. But also the more harmful and painful it becomes as well. At the end… It’s your choice, it’s your game.
Level 2: Youth
Here you fully are in the real game, with no beginner instructions, controlling the character freely, and playing (literally) however you want.
Here you need to apply what you have been taught, either from the Developer or Parents or anyone that guided you throughout the first Level. Always know that this level is the longest among the three. Any game we play has indeed some sort of objectives and missions as we mentioned before. Well… you have the liberty to ignore them, it might be fun for a bit of time, but you’ll lose interest quickly.
Video games are surely different from board games, but every game regardless of what type it is has the same 4 main objectives:
1. Enjoy playing
don’t force yourself to choose higher difficulties for more rewards, you’re just playing a game and it has to be fun. And more importantly, you will not have success if you don’t enjoy playing, you would just quit (Suicide).
2. Play strategically
You will never win the game of life randomly, you have to follow the rules set by the developer (GOD) as well as the instructions. Think carefully about your strategy and your plan to achieve your goals and accomplish your missions. And give yourself room to change your strategy whenever you feel like it without scratching your gameplay.
3. Keep the health bar as full as possible
Never forget to take care of your health, In order to keep the game on, You need to keep track of your health. the game of life is only one-time gameplay, you only got one chance! once the health bar goes empty, it’ll never fill again!
4. Win the game:
each one determines his own way of winning the game of life, so you need to determine yours too, Play the game your way and not anybody else’s way. Don’t compare yourself with anybody. Set your own goals, create a new future, and play the game with the hope of winning!
Secrets of the game of life
Do you know what’s more beautiful and more exciting about the game of life? it’s that players are different, every player spawned differently and in a random spot on the map (EARTH), and has different features.
- A player can have advantages, like spawning in a great spot, having a good look, or having talent. Those who determine and help a player to have the youth he wishes depending on what he has, and play the missions in his own way.
- A player can gain experience and be more skilled doing secondary missions, like traveling, attending the gym, reading books, etc…
- The game might crash at any time, never expect you will win the game when you finish all of your missions. Always keep in mind that although you have liberty in the game, you’re still controlled by the developer, the game goes and flows however he likes.
- bringing too many friends to the server would slow the game down, choose your friends and your environment wisely, make sure they will make you win the game and keep your health bar full, then invite them to the server (Your life).
Level 3: Senile
if you made it to level 3, then you mostly followed the third objective of youth (The health bar), wherefore, you won some extra time to play more but very slowly as you have damaged yourself enough in the youth level.
The major goal in this level is to keep track of your health bar! fight for your health bar as you did in the previous level, according to the Developer (Time damages the Health bar). Despite fighting for the health bar, but someday it will get empty no matter what… and your game will be over.
The loss equation
primary missions: duties, your duty towards the developer (GOD),taking care of yourself and those who you love etc…, anything that you have to do in order to win the game.
Secondary missions: goals, starting a business, reading books.. anything that can help your healthbar full and gives you experience.
To increase your chances of winning the game, you should accomplish your primary missions as well as your secondary ones, this is how you can make the loss tend to 0.
Buuuut, keep in mind that no player is perfect, no one has a (loss = 0) and this is how the game of life goes, we go through ups and downs, which don’t help us to make the loss a perfect Zero, but with enough courage, we can make it as minimal as possible.
Final words
The game of life might be very hard sometimes for some players, but as long as you can walk on the map… you got no excuse to lose the game. Understand the objective and rules, Play your life with happiness, Always be moving forward, Appreciate other players, Embrace the challenges, Always be competing, and Make your R.I.P. a W.I.N.
and never forget… to PLAY YOUR OWN GAME!
If you’re reading this, I gotta praise your patience. I guess I’ll call it a day now. If you have any suggestions about new articles/improvements on this article/any questions, don’t hesitate to ask. You can comment here, or email me, or send me a message on Instagram, or send me a message on discord (E11even#1673). Peace!
