Player One: The Game of Life

 So I'm fairly stoned and fairly emotional at the moment. So emotional that I'm trying to fight back tears as I write this and conversely wanting the sweet sweet release of the tears and the stress. I feel you, little sore inside my mouth trying to wonder why the hell you popped up in the first place. I have an idea but I have another idea on that one, and so on. I shouldn't be stressed about the first thing, my lack of work is a bit of a stressor and I am aware of it but I more or less brushed it off when I maybe should not have. That or something else. MAYBE, it's my systems getting back into the rat race so to speak, I did just come off an almost 2 year "sabbatical". At which point I had managed to reach an almost zen like state. I look for balance, I can find it ut I also think I was plateauing, so now with school on the horizon I may be getting a bit anxious with that as well, but I digress.

I was thinking how there are many similarities to life and video games. I am not the only one, just google that. As to where I get there, I am a bit of a narcissist and self centered and an ego centrist, but I think those all say the same. I'm under the impression that we all have to be a bit if we are to be of any service to others, not in a mean way but in an encouraging way (I'm about to smack myself, as this is something that I would not have stated or been convicted of in the past). This also assumes you think your duties and abilities lie in the goal of helping others and not just in word. Hmm.. I come back to this thought that I have and how I view the world and how this is tied to video games.

It's Dangerous Out There...

If you view your life, your world, as a sort of RPG video game like say Zelda or Suikoden or FF or hell even just the good ol tabletop pen/paper/dice RPGs that started it all. Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D for the OG's or Blackmoor if you prefer). I've come to this realization that unless I interact with you you are a non interactive NPC. I'm not sure if I should have an issue with this or not as I sort of feel a conflict on if I should to begin with. A) I should they are a person regardless if I interact with or not. B) It's not that I don't recognize them as a person it's just because that I have no interaction with them I give them the basic courtesy (what is basic courtesy? *damn it!), what more do i need to provide beyond that?

Overall, I generally plug in my headphones when I venture outside the house. Nine times out of ten I usually don't have an encounter with anyone of "consequence" outside my destinations. When I say "9 times outta 10" I'm making a guesstimate, an informal guess/estimate based on my overall all said encounters, that said it's not scientific in the least. Just a place to start.

Meeting people is difficult, especially with Covid and the social activities that were present pre-Covid are not really there at the moment. I do want to go back to that museum however... Saturday?

Forewarned is forearmed

What is needed for this adventure?

TBD

*Just thinking there's something else I want to look into, read up on - wikipedia, etc.