“Life is like a video game, every time we level up the struggle remains and only the level of difficulty increases” – Vipul Goyal (Humorously Yours)
Life is a journey of varied experiences and there is no better way to understand this journey than thinking about it in terms of Video games as they beautifully capture the essence of life i.e. struggle would be always be there in our life in some form or another and we should be ready to face these challenges.
In video games like Contra/Mario there are multiple levels and at each level we need to kill certain villains/Boss Characters to proceed to the next level, but to kill those Boss Characters we only get a small gun with which it is extremely difficult to kill them.
So, we keep imagining how it would feel like to be on the next level where we would have this big machine gun with which we could easily kill this villain, but in this process, we don’t realize that at the next level the Boss Character is even more difficult to kill.
In life also, the struggles that we face in our daily lives where we constantly wish that if we would have this or that (read Level up) then we could have easily crossed this hurdle, but we don’t realize that even then some another form of struggle would crop up. During childhood, I constantly wished to be an outspoken person which would help me overcome my shyness in making new friends, when I was in my teens I just wanted to be done with social science, during adolescence I wanted to overcome my fear of failure and now not a day goes by when I am not fighting fires. As Steve Jobs once said its only looking backwards that we can connect the dots and I can say with certainty that all these hurdles and the experiences in overcoming them, be it fighting ones shyness by constantly exposing oneself to different cities and cultures, actually reading about social science not from the purpose of scoring marks but actually understanding it as a subject, facing my inhibitions that manifests in the form of fear of failure have actually shaped me as an individual and made me more confident in dealing with life’s upcoming challenges.
So, if we wish to level up in life, we should be prepared to handle the struggles that comes with it.
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