I'm on level 295 in Candy Crush Saga. I think most the people I know have played this addictive game and many still do. I was at a bar with a group of friends a few days ago and a friend of mine was sitting with us, but was playing Candy Crush instead of joking with the rest of us. On the cruise my family went on in the beginning of the year my mom (80s) was playing. She was getting very frustrated so my oldest sister just said to me, "Help mom out." Even though we hadn't talked about whether I played it or not. Why do people at lower levels think people at upper levels can just crack the code?
Many people get caught up on one level and play it and play it until finally things match up and they can advance. I was on one level for over 3 months and I thought I would never pass that level. I kept playing periodically and one day I was just going through the motions and I surprised myself that things just randomly lined up and I passed the level. Some levels have been easy and some seemed impossible ... but eventually, even after 3 months, things worked out. While I was struggling in one level I started to realize how there was a correlation between playing this game and life in general.
Sometimes life gets frustrating and it seems like it will never get better. Sometimes no matter what you do things don't work out. You have to be persistent, you can't give up, you can't lie down and just decide to die. You have to keep trying and time will cure all. Keep trying, don't give up, keep your eye open for ways to overcome the difficulties and the problems will be overcome. Sometimes in Candy Crush you know how to complete the level and you need to wait for the right candies to line up and when they do you can combine them and complete the level.
When you know what you need to do sometimes you get sidetracked and forget what the real goal is. Instead of getting the acorn to the bottom of the screen you see a way to get many points and pursue that. By the time your number of turns runs out you remember what the real goal of the level was and you have to start over. Life is like that. Sometimes you want to provide the best things for your kids so you spend all of your hours making money and don't have time to be with your kids. I really don't believe that it is quality of time with kids rather than quantity of time. Kids need Mom and Dad!
Candy Crush goes on forever. You don't play until level 100 and then you get a little golden coin that says you win. Life is the same way. There isn't an end, you doing win if you live to be 100 and then you climb the stairs to go to heaven. There was a movie called Soylent Green that when you lived to 32 years you walked into a "pleasure chamber" and you never came out. We don't know when our lives will be over. If your life ended on a certain date you would spend the last year before that date saying good bye to everyone and preparing for it. Life goes on until it doesn't so you have to play the LIFE GAME until the end.
In Candy Crush there is a small red button at the bottom left of the screen that you can use to reset the level. In life you can go back to school to reset your skills so you can learn how to overcome your problems. Maybe that "school" is talking to family or friends, maybe that "school" is reading or figuring out how previous life lessons can help you with this dilemma. You can't turn your back to your problems, you can walk away for a while and then come back, but you have to figure a way around or through them. When you go back to the game of life they will be there until you go to the next level.
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