I believe that life is like a video game.
You can choose to keep playing the same character that you started out with from the beginning.
Before you fully understood the rules of the game. Before you knew anything about the world you’re living in. Before you really understood what kind of challenges and missions you would face along the way.
The same character who had to figure it all out the hard way, and can never fully realize their potential because of those mistakes and necessary failures.
Or … at any point you can start the game over and create a new playable character. Equipping them with different traits and skills.
And with that character, build new relationships even with the same NPCs you’ve previously encountered along the way.
Go to different places, or revisit old ones in new ways.
Change the dialog you engage with.
And … there is no limit to how many times you can reinvent your life, restart the game, choose a new character.
No limit to the depth you can develop.
And of course, at your very core you are still you.
Most people will not choose this course though, because they are afraid of going back to the beginning. They believe that repeating any step in life is a sign of regression instead of a chance at perfection.
What do you think?
I relate to this so much. I often feel my life has been a series of chapters in a book that are SO DIFFERENT it would be hard to wrap your head around this is ONE life story. I first learned this in 6th grade when I was tired of the character I had been given, (weird fat girl) and decided I would work on that and be what I wanted at the time-just a weird girl. Reinventing yourself should always be welcomed, right? Without growth there is death? For me, to stay the same forever might as well be death.
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