I love to play games, especially a strategic game, like chess. For me chess is a game that i can play till the day i die, as it doesnt require too much muscle reflex like other modern video games. Yeah muscles reflex like jumping or shooting, my kids often ask me to play shooting games like PUBG or Roblox games which have too much jumping or shooting, then i told them, “ i am too old for that” . Its too tiring for me now.

Today’s games require us to spend more energy and concentration in order to win it. I often think it is getting more complicated. The story line is also deeper, the day when the games is just simply put the same color blocks like tetris or just help the princess get out from the kidnapper in old Mario has long gone.

In some of the games, i noticed they incorporate multiplayer games network, developing your characters with buying accessories which involve real money and if you develop it wrong you may become loser in the game.

Games is a way to channel my desire to compete and being better than anyone else. In real life, we might be a loser in the game of life, but in game we can gain some of the dignity that we lost in real life. That’s why winning a game is a way to escape the reality.

When we lose a game, its so bitter that we want to retry again and again until we can get a way how to overcome the problems or the final boss. No matter how hard the game is, if we spend some of our valuable time to it, we will finally be able to overcome it, at least if the game developer create an impossible boss to beat, we can just smash the game to the wall. But, in doing so, you will lose some money, though you can feel so much relieved.

I think the game developers are trying to tie us down in their game, to make us not be able to get up and think other things. They just want us get addicted to their game.

Losing things is bitter, i know that, but winnning think may gives us more headache as problems that we neglect in order to win, are piling up,

In daily live, out of the game world, to have a winning mentality is a must. However, we need wisely choose which area of life we need to win over. Otherwise, it gives us more problems that losing it.

For example, winning an argument with our friend is enjoyable, but if it distances us with them in the end, may make losing seems more attractive.