"Life As A Game"

Life as a game means that I have a journey that I must travel with companions at my side, complete challenges to move on to the next tier, or find hidden paradises to enjoy my life as whole.

The first area in my life is finding a stable, healthy source of fun and entertainment. Storytelling brings out the flavor in a bland, lonely life. Finding yourself as the narrator that holds the keys of the universe so preciously in your hands, perhaps you can unlock the means of pulling out the childlike, raw imagination hidden away in your mind. Creating a novel from my childhood storytelling to my early adulthood was a passage of time that built up experience points and teared down by harsh criticism that eventually formed into the person I am today. With the journey I endured, I would never been able to unlock the creative potential I had within me to apply the various ideas in my story that spread across in my fields of study, especially delivering me to Texas A&M.

The second area in my life is finding the right physical environment, Studying in a university has its perks in finding a study spot. I often find myself exploring the unexplored parts of the university like how I would travel within the forest in my backyard. Discovering the open-world environment that a little dusky yet run-down place College Station kept expanding my general knowledge about the massive Texas A&M campus. But even then, I had to strategize which bus routes to take, which shortcuts to take, and how to avoid the incoming traffic time to time as well. Constantly, I had to find the perfect study spot: not too many people to reduce noise, open space for my eyes to catch an aesthetic sight when I look up, and hopefully a desk and chair and a plug point too. With these specifications, as well as creating a mini Google Maps in my head, I had to wander endlessly while finding the little paradise to complete my productive objectives. Hopefully, believing that I can be productive the best I can be without being distracted. But that's the whole thing when coming back to the university after spending endless yet lazy days in my melting summers and freezing winters. But in the end, it is a game of survival to find the right habitat to meet my living needs as well.

A third area in my life is finding success in the career I seek after. I would never been able to be successful in completing my project without collaboration with my teammates, time management, facing my biggest opponents to complete my objective. In the end, I had to learn professional duties and communication skills to enhance myself to interact with others in a professional project. For my research class, however: I had to learn how to find my long-term interests in the studies my team and I were conducting in the lab. Even if the research topic was flashy as "virtual reality applied as a tools for space exploration" comes down to the feasibility and practicality of finding a stable career from that. In the gaming aspect, I found it like a dating simulator where one's choices can affect the entirety of the plot of the game as well as the people you interact around you. In order to gain enough points in producing reports as well as collaborating with fellow teammates, I had to find the correct balance and energy to complete the year-long project. In the end, I was able to accomplish such a feat and return to my life as a bumbling college student waiting for the endless days away from graduation.

But in the end again, I find myself competitive and poking fun at the life I live. Striving for ways to keep myself occupied, but also finding the longed-for paradise I seek for each and every day.

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