GAME OF LIFE
W, H and Y.
The three letters my mind decides to
hang on to when the clock strikes 12. I
sit by the window, watching the lonely
lane as I let my mind lead the parade of
these hefty thoughts. Ever wondered
why you feel the chills creeping
through your spine when you walk
down the road all alone? Ever
wondered why you sometimes hear a
voice calling your name and you turn
around to see an empty space? Though
one might assume these are just minor
ploys the brain decides to play on us, I
wonder if there is a predominant being
who is sitting on a couch, munching
potato chips, and seeing us as the
teeny-tiny characters from a video
game of his own dimension. Laughing
at how we walk, stumble, rise and fall as
we try to accomplish each task assigned
to us. Remember the time when you
walked into a room and forgot why
you were there in the first place?
Maybe that's when in the other
dimension, he presses a pause to the
game, because his mother yelled at him,
for wasting his time playing. He
resumes the game,
making himself and us wonder what
was happening there in the first place.
It's funny how we play the mind games
without knowing that we may already
be inside one. Whips of reality leave us
dazed and the path of our life is
uncertain. It's funny to realize how this
reality is extremely significant to us but
it is just a figment of a game for the
predominant being. Just like in the
game Temple Run, we keep running,
collecting wealth, chasing the adventure
of life, trying to reach that end goal,
afraid that, if we stop, we'd die, or have
an external force stops us from
achieving it. These ploys, the ones we
tell ourselves are just our mind making
up things, are in fact just glitches in the
simulation. A point where we're caught
between two realities, except we don't
realize it.
A change of perspectives, a change of
meanings. We learn that change is
inevitable. The predominant being
learns that change is a necessity because
he knows at a point, he would need
another game as he finishes this game.
The game of Life.
DEEKSHIKA
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