Are we gaming?

Life is a game! Indeed it is. To be a player or to be played, its just a matter of time, and fate!

            With so much going on lately, life has been a fast moving game for me! The game seems to fly like waves, too fast, fast enough even to realize if that was a game at all. Gamers darn! People are so spontaneous, so bolt speeded, they won’t even let you learn the rules. They make rules, and you voluntarily, involuntarily, just follow. They are so much of fast pacer, that in a lightning they wrap up the game, and there they stand as the winner, with the trophy all for themselves to cherish. Why not say, they are lover of pareto’s conception of optimality, take away all for themselves and let others worse off. No fair share, I say, is there winning strategy. It’s always, you take I give, I say you follow. No negotiation as well. Just imposition, should I call it standard terms or hard ball game. Whatever be it, the players, are witty indeed. Lest we would have learnt the rules quite early, wouldn’t we?

              In the 90 minute game even the football gets few seconds of peace, handling with ease. But with this game of life, you pause you are smashed. And there like the football on the ground, on the feet of the veteran baller, is ready to be kicked, to score! And here we, me are ready to be kicked, by the gamers of life. Skeptical enough, but what could we possibly do, until we learn the tricks ourselves. And what would we actually do when we learn the tricks, the rules? Should we be on the same ground, kicking and juggling the victim? Victimizing people for their naivety, juggling them for our benefit, and what not? Are we going to be so below our dignity, so downtrodden, that we actually need to step on someone else’s back to stand on our hind. It is truly pathetic, that we need such a medium for our survival. Aren’t we built, grown, nurtured strong enough to stand on our own? Aren’t we going to make a difference in this mob, to stand out, to fight for the right and not the might? Aren’t we the ones who are going to lend a helping hand to the helpless? So? Why is the gaming strategy taking over our morale? Why are we just learning the game, as a beginner, to become an expert. Are we not going to find any other way to make our life worth it!

This is such a despair! Life gives us one chance, a single chance to be something, not under terms and conditions of drowning someone else to death, instead to widen our horizon and achieve everything beneath the sun, holding our feet firmly to the ground.