Video Games & Reality

What is reality? A place where everything is real? What does that mean? People say reality is the place where we live our lives and accomplish goals, achieve dreams and all.... It seems great and yet, people perish not only physically but mentally when their dreams fall apart and turn to dust, some give it a second shot and that's when they finally succeed or just taste failure again, then the optimistic keep on trying while the others just give up. Reality gets boring after some time, after succeeding or failing numerous times, life gets boring and thus people want to try living in another universe, a different life......through video games. A virtual reality when you can do whatever you want, sounds nice, huh?

In GTA, you can kill whoever you want and commit crimes, in some games, you play as the hero, saving countless lives and fighting evil, it all sounds fun but every game has an ending. Once you finish the game, you replay it until you're bored and stop living that life again. Some games give you choices that will decide the outcome of the ending, good endings, bad endings and the character's future lives.....

We play video games to get a taste of the character's life, to live the life of a hero who saves the world in the end. Some take the role of a detective or even a deranged killer like in Manhunt 2. What do we get out of these games? Aren't our lives almost the same? We make choices about our actions as in the game where you choose where to go and what path to take maybe even who to kill. Our lives are just as interesting, our lives are like video games, just with boundaries to keep us safe. Life is full of choices as like in video games, just we can't assume the role of a mad killer without going to prison, haha.... Video games are based on life, what you see and hear it's our reality, just with different people, maybe people like playing video games because of the great characters and the great storyline.

We live our lives for about 80 years before we die, it'll surely get boring. However, if you think about it, our lives are more interesting than any video game, why be a zombie-killing survivor when you can live your live as a teenager who's having the time of his/her life going to school and being with friends, just living is interesting enough, man used sticks as weapons and learned how to make fire, isn’t that interesting, to make a discovery like that, then we made various advancements in technology and culture and those who contributed should feel that their lives are way more interesting than video games, just never give up and choose the easy path. Life may have cheats, but they aren't designed for reality. And never give up as it's worse than any game over, you may just have thrown away your future. Too bad life doesn't have a restart button.