Life is a Game: Insert Coins & Press Start

How do you win at the game of life?

For the next 24 hours try to play life as a game. Your life is a game. What are the rules? Can you break them? What’s the objective? What’s your overall goal or ultimate prize? What level are you on? What’s your progress in the game so far?

In short — do you think you have what it takes to beat the game?

What’s your style of play? That probably depends on what type of game you’re playing. Look at your life for clues.

What kind of game do you think you’re in? A shoot ‘em up, a beat ‘em up, a cute platform scroller?

If you’re yellow, eat a lot of pills, and have a problem with monsters trying to chase and eat you, then congratulations, Pac-Man. Once you realise that special power pills allow you to chase and eat the monsters instead, then it’s not too hard to figure out how to spend your day.

More likely you’re in one of those open-ended multi-directional games like Grand Theft Auto, which at first glance don’t seem to have levels in the traditional sense.

The playing field is wide open — or at least it feels that way.

First time up, it seems like there’s an unlimited number of ways to score points, and just as many ways of keeping score.