So i was busy playing some game(don’t ask me the name,but all i know it was car race),a hint am obsessed with car racing,not in reality but as a gamer. The game had what i’d call rules or whatever they could be. But this is generally what happened,i was to race eight Super sports cars,i was to be among the top three to proceed to the next level. In the road i was using,all kind of distractors and some silly attacks from the cars i was supposed to outshine. Every time i was attacked,there was a vibration or al music that kinda screamed how a loser i was. So the race started,at the first round i was the first,then came the attack,i think a missile or something,landed right behind my car,then the vibration,that freaked me out,i closed my eyes,cursed under my breath,i opened my eyes and poof i was 8/8,what statements-creators called it “from grace to grass”,well i like challenges,off i changed my gears and hit my accelerator to the maxim speed….
8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2…
Poof. Again came the vibration,guess i had ridden over an explosive… Back to the pattern,closed my eyes,cursed under my breath,opened the eyes,and oh boy back to your position 8/8… This time before i could even change my gears and all that,another long vibration,i had missed my directions and hit straight into a tree(thought i was racing in a desert,where that tree came from only God knows), i cursed more,did some gear change,stepped on the accelerator,did more brakes,turned my steering wheel into different angles,after some seconds i was back on the road,stepped on my accelerator,back to my maximum speed and i hit the road,then something weird happens,all the cars i thought i was chasing after all were coming from my front and going back,two things crossed my mind,one I’m a victim of a wrong race challenge or (i hope not this) i was going in a wrong direction, the latter unfortunately was correct,i had to do a drifting and change my direction,but then as i was almost the finish line,i thought the race was over but unfortunately not,as i was circled and i had one more lap,come on that sucks!!!,well i quit and thought about restarting the race.
Restarted race…
Something crossed my mind,for me to have a better game,some things must change,one i have to do away with the vibrations(loser’s tones) and should turn up my music and the sounds my car made whenever it accelerated,braked or drifted(motivational tones), finally i was ready. The race started,loud music,the game was on. Started in position 3, my gears,a hard step on the accelerator, a missile thrown,target hit,i keep moving,no curses,eyes still open,position 2…. Another explosive in the road,(middle finger up),played with my steering wheel,did a well calculated drift then brakes,suck it boy i missed it…
Back on the track,one more lap one more challenge in the race… I stepped harder on the accelerator, my speed was hitting at 170… 180… And more 220.. Then i realized something,my engine was slowing down,then a thought something,if these cars could throw a missile at me then why not me. I looked for the magic button and there it was,a clear vision of my opponent and bingo press the button bastard,poof on target. Hurray i was now the first and the finish line was close.
A big smile…
My tensed muscles relaxed and i smiled,and as if fate was teaching me a lesson,another car came super fast from my behind and it stepped the finish line first,i was second,pissed i became. But then i proceeded to the next level.. Sweet riddance.
Learnt something??
Life is a game,we are always like in a race,trying to chase what we want,trying to always achieve something before our demise ,trying to build an empire for the people we love. Just the same way as the game,its not smooth,we’ve to meet an explosive on our way, we have to be hit by a missile and a times meet trees on our way that only heaven knows where they came from. And if that is not enough we at times lose focus and find our self in the wrong direction. Instead of moving forward we move backwards,we lose what we had gained.
Some will quit fully and decide that that they’ve had enough. They’ll either choose to consider themselves failures and opt to idling around never to follow their ambitions(well i could have chose to never play the game), or they’ll also choose to hide themselves from the world and all the failures it exposed them to. Suicide(I would have as well uninstalled the game and forget it ever existed).
And then there will be other group of people who will sit down,think over it,try finding out what caused their failure and try eliminating them. They will find that they heard more more of discouragements and “trust-me-not-you-can’t-make-it” statements from the sadistic and mean people around them(loser’s tone),so they go ahead purchase headphones and turn up the music and focus on their triumphant voices within them(motivational tones) and they’ll be back to the ground stronger than before. They’ll step harder on their accelerator and venture deeper into into what they were once called dumb at. They’ll always emerge the best on what they’ve chose to move with. A reminder don’t work too hard to lose what matters in your life;your family your friends and yourself are what is not supposed to be lost.
In life sometimes you just don’t have to play clean as they’re playing dirty. Release your missile if its what it takes to make you a winner.
Importantly be deaf to what pulls you down,never be afraid to be hit by a missile,but always have the second chance or even a hundredth chance to stand up again and hit the road. If they throw a rock on you,come on don’t build a castle on a rock that would have killed you… Instead smile and move on but when the chance comes unleash the rocks you’ve that they bow down to you and show them the middle finger( but please don’t miss),you’re the boss of your own self.