The famous poet and playwright Shakeshpeare had said that Life is a big stage and we are just characters playing various roles. Agree , totally agree with him. Even I can twist it a little bit to say in computer gaming jargon that Life is one of the biggest RPG ( Role Playing Genre ) Game ever and we are nothing but playing character whose only desire to gain level cap, thereby gaining experience and to build a character which has a conceivable effect on surrounding open world.
First of all , let me give you insight to what actually RPG is. ( If you are not into computer gaming , then it's possible that you have never heard it before.) .Even though I call myself hard-core Gamer ( If I can trust my memory then I'm playing computer games since 7 years ,say from 2002 ) , still I just started to pay attention to RPG since last year only. ( Fallout 3 has done it ) . I must say that if after spending ( wasting in terms of other people who are not willing to play it :) 75 to 80 hours in barren wastelands of Fallout 3 , it still manages to attract me to play it , wander about in open post-apocalyptic retro futuristic environments then Fallout 3 must be a hell of a good RPG ( and now i'm looking forward to Fallout:New Vegas )Then I go through other RPGs also like Mass Effect 1 , 2 and Dragon Age . I don't meant to list down what I played and not played by ranting all this stuff. Point is, As I started to superimpose my "in game" fantasies to real world ( as most gamers do ) ,I realized that this world is nothing than the biggest RPG ever we played all along our lifespan, the only difference is "game of life" never allows you second play-through. In general all RPG's have basic structure consisting mainly of experiences or Level Caps,Stats,Perks and character development.You start with very basic features which are mostly incompetent in brutal game world. so you have to learn the things fast and try to gain as much experience points as you can to take on the fight against monsters or evils or ogres or dragons or whatever it is. Your ultimate goal is to solve the quests ( thereby earning more XP :). The best part of RPG is you choose to build a character as you like and still continue to go for various quests with different approaches.Either you can build a all trigger-happy killing frenzy or silent shadow follower assassin or highly intellectual hacking geek or ........list goes on.
Now consider and compare all these with our real world situation symbolically. Life is always like that. After happy memories of childhood ( training period ), all you required to do is get yourself familiar with skills ( schools and collages ) and then plunge into real world for gaining more experience and build a character ( fighting inner demons , morality and lot other ). Also sometimes it seems that outer world is no more hostile and treacherous than fictional gaming world. You have to move and depend on your instincts, sometimes build a relationships ( with NPC ) and continuously go on for the new quest.
Well, but not all is same here. I would like to point out a factor which favors in computer RPG over real life ( absolutely my view only ). In real life you never had chance to live again with different path (very sad aspect ).
so choose to indulge in RPG gaming (real or fictional : your take ) and build your character well so that you can fight back and register a victory over later stages (of game or life) and never ever fall back due to high difficulty as I said it's matter of time and earning experience and knowledge to overcome the problems ( evils or dragons or zombies or radiation or loan payments or relationships problems or career roadblock or whatever the hazard :)
