Living in a Stimulating Video Game and Still Losing — What’s Up With That!?

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If you’re like me, you’ve been living life like a video game for some time now. We go through the motions, level up, and try to achieve something meaningful in the end. But what happens when you find yourself in a seemingly endless loop of losing levels, no matter how hard you try?

It can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you’re playing a game with no end. It’s easy to give up and get stuck in a rut, feeling like there’s no point in trying anymore. But if you take a step back and look at life from a philosophical perspective, you can start to get a better sense of why life is so hard and why we have to work so hard to make progress.

Life is a Video Game Stimulation

If life is like a video game, then it stands to reason that we are living in a simulated reality. We are playing characters in a game and trying to earn points and rewards for completing tasks. The problem is that it’s hard to tell what tasks we should be focusing on, or what will lead to success.

In a way, we are like Non-Player Characters (NPCs) in a game, blindly following instructions and going through the motions without…