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, you set that one aside and you start creating a new one.  After some time, you have created 100 different characters.  All of them are you!  Each one came from the creator of the game, YOU! 

Each one of them is now operating on their own, independent from you!  But they are you, you are simply no longer in constant communication with them.  Each character has been programmed to a set of rules that was created by you, however they no longer are receiving any more instructions from you.  They are operating independently within the rules set forth by you.  Each one of these characters interacts with the others and you begin to see confrontations arise.  The teacher gets upset at the student, or the rock star gets mad at the lighting guy.  You watch the players get frustrated with one another.  You wonder what happened to the program.  Why are the players acting this way?  How do you correct the situation in your game?  You realize that you are the creator of the game, so you go back to each character and begin re-writing their coding.  You (as the creator) begin to have open dialogue again with each character to attempt to understand how you can get each one to play nice with the others.  You understand that a piece of YOU is inside of each one of the characters in the game.  Therefore, you want everyone to get along.  But how come you can’t get along with yourself? 

You begin to realize that each character thinks it is better than the other characters.  The rock star thinks he is more important than the lighting guy.  The teacher thinks she is wiser than the student.  Regardless of the situation, each character believes that he or she is the most important character.  BUT, how can each one be more important than another if all of the characters were created by YOU? 

How do you correct this?  You begin re-writing the computer code.  You give each one free will to communicate back to you, the creator of the game.  You allow each player the option to ask you direct questions.  You notice that some players willingly ask you questions, but others don’t care.  WHY?  Why do some players want to communicate with their creator and others don’t?  This is easy to see, but difficult to solve.  Some characters love their life.  Some of them don’t have a need to speak to their creator b/c their life is perfect.  Or, they think it is!  They think because they have a big house, or a lot of money that they don’t need to speak with the creator.  They can go on living this way without regard for others.  Who cares if that guy over there is poor or hungry?  Why should I care about that girl over there who just got fired from her job?  That’s their problem, not mine.  But, as the creator of the game, you do care for each character.  You want each character to have the best life possible.  But how do you write the computer code so every character is cherished and respected by all of the other characters while still giving each character free will?  

How do you write the code so every character understands it was created by you, the creator?  How do you get each character to grasp the fact that they were created by you just like everyone else and that they are no better and no worse than the other players?  According to their creator, all characters in the game are equal. 

How would you write the code so that each player remembers who they are and where they came from?  How would you make sure that each character respects the other characters?  How can you write the code so everyone is equal and feels loved and cherished? 

Is it even possible to write a computer code that allows for all of the characters to get along?

Now, what if this game is our current life NOW?  What if each one of us is a character in the game, but we have lost touch with our creator.  How do we re-write the code so everyone remembers where we came from?  How do we correct the code and remember that each one of us is equal?