Life is a Game

This is not about conways game of life.

It’s also not about how life might be a simulation and we are all just part of a game.

Do you know the feeling you get or had when you play an interesting game? Where you’d like to get home earlier to get to the PC and start playing for a few hours? I remember that feeling of addiction and enjoyment a lot.

I mainly had this when I played games on my first laptop (with a Nvidia GT450m). After I walked the dog and did everything I needed to do, I liked to play a few hours and be in that different world.

It’s a state where nothing else really matters and the things happening in the real world become less important.

Today

Even today, I sometimes have this feeling, when I deep dive into my work. It’s like playing life like a game with the same addiction. It’s a feeling where I’d like to look into my simulation and see how it went and can’t wait to analyze the results. Of course, analyzing, fixing and programming can also be a very tedious thing to do, but mainly I love what I do. I think, that this is somehow how it should be. Finding something to do in your life which is beneficial and provides you with a lot of joy.

Sometimes, I wonder if this is something special about me. Having this ability to deep dive into a topic and lose everything around me. I hope, that everybody somehow has a topic that they can spend time on and forget about everything else - they just have to find their topic.

On the other hand, I don’t think that one can expect that everybody finds something which they enjoy doing ~8 hours a day that much. Most people I talk to about this don’t feel like that and also don’t have the urge to find something as long as one finds enjoyment somewhere else in their free time.

So I did not come to a conclusion yet but still want to persist these thoughts and just hope that I will keep my enjoyment for the things I do.