The GAME of Life!
I went for a walk last night had a thought pop into my awareness. It was a silly little exercise to help explain this life we are living. Imagine for a moment that you are a middle school student and you are tasked with designing a video game. You have to create all of the characters in the game, the landscape, the buildings, everything. As you begin creating your characters, you start pondering what their life would be like. You create one guy who is a rock star and goes to all the cool parties, they have nice clothes, lots of money and are loved by many. You dream this character into existence. You love this character, and for a while, you are this character in the game. Then, you set that character aside and you create a new one. Now you are a school teacher. You have a family, you enjoy reading, nature and helping others. For a while, you are fully connected to this character, and then after a while, ...