Life Is [Like] A Videogame. Don't get me wrong, I love videogames; it's how I cope, how I detach from the reality of the world, to find the joy that I may lack at the given moment, to feel a rush of something when all I feel is nothing. Because life is like a videogame. Life is [like] a videogame because we're given tons of online tutorials on how to live the life they may be living. But I don't want their life... I just want my own. Life is [like] a videogame. You can get through the tutorial and still be confused as he[ck]. You can be told how to avoid the bugs, the viruses, the hacking, but never told how to fix it all. Because the moment you fix it, people will still find reason to hate. But that's one of life's cruelest jokes isn't it? Not everyone will be happy, even if it benefits society but sends them back a few inches, a few hundreds or thousands of dollars that'd otherwise be pocket change to them, because that's how some people are. Selfish. Cruel. Manipulative. All to just gain some resemblance of power. Life is [like] a videogame. You have all these challenges you're thrown into and they're never as simple as the tutorial had made them out to be. You're expected to wake up, go make money just to give the money away for another person to be paid only for them to give some of that away, and what is that money used for? A majority of it isn't used to help ensure the peace of a nation, the stability of society, the insurance of promising healthcare, it's used with greed. Because life is a videogame. If you're a lower level than another you're spat on and disgraced, but if you're a higher level you're praised and worshipped. Life is a videogame. It's the same routine every day but with increased difficulty each time. Either because of problems being tested, mental health fluctuating, physical health being impacted by both, it doesn't matter. Because life is a videogame with no clear final boss other than your own suffering.
Image is from a google image search of "Psychological videogame" but the poem here is a bit different than what I usually would do. My last one explored themes of isolation that I went through in a dream, this one is bit darker, more cynical take of the world, more notably America's current situation and everything so if you're not in America or not from America, some may resonate but other stuff may be confusing without research.
