THE LINE BETWEEN GAMES AND REALITY

 

I am a video game enthusiast like most of the boys of my age. But recently, I felt that some of the experiences in games were being repeated in my real life, the same day or the next day.A few days back, while I was playing "Minecraft," a player who was new in this game, asked for directions to find a desert. I helped him by telling the exact coordinates of the desert. The next day at school a boy from grade one, who had just joined the school, asked me for directions to his classroom and I gladly led him there. Another time, while playing a game, my character was finding a treasure chest in a jungle. As time increased so did the difficulty level. Dark clouds gathered and then heavy winds and rain made it difficult for me to hunt the treasure. I was caught up in playing the game until I felt my room getting darker and darker. Out of curiosity, I opened the curtains and was surprised to see that out of nowhere, the thick dark clouds had turned a bright and sunny day into dark and stormy. I realized the line between the games and reality was getting thinner. In a racing game, I ignored a warning sign and got my character into trouble. Around three hours later while I was riding my bike, I did not pay attention to a "Work in Progress" sign on a construction site and ran my bike into the wet concrete floor. Bike's wheels got stuck in the wet concrete and I barely stopped myself from falling. It was unusual how my choices in the games were somehow affecting my real life. That is when I realized that perhaps those happenings in the games were meant to teach me to play fairly, make good choices, and good things will follow in real life.

                                                                                             Shazil Hayat Khan V Blue