Memories

Posted by : Unknown Saturday, September 26, 2015

"The Goal of all Life is Death"

-Sigmund Freud

This past days I spent my free time watching anime and playing games.

It has always been like that. I don't really know if it's just become my hobby or my addiction.

I watch. . .

I play. . .

I watch. . .

I play. . .

It has always been like that. . .

I can barely remember the memories when I was still a child who enjoys playing computer games even if only for 30 minutes or an hour.

I guess I have reached my bliss point.

As I was doing the same routine, I stumbled upon an on-going anime.

"Overlord"

I tried to watch it, out of boredom.

It took my interest for the story is about a player who where trapped in another world where in he became his character from a Dive Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game or DMMORPG "Yggdrasil". In that world, he was the most powerful being for he was a high level spell caster and because he is not a human.

I continued to watch until the latest episode, episode 12.

The main character, Ains was casting a very powerful skill called "Skill:The Goal of all Life is Death". Then, after the casting of skill, Everything in the area of effect died.

I was astonished!

But after a while it made me think.

"The Goal of all Life is Death".

If the goal of all life is death, then are we just wasting our time living?

In life, We came across with lots of struggles. It's like a Role Playing Game (RPG).

We control our very own character. We are the ones who would decide what to do with this character. We choose what path to take and those paths would lead us to great treasured but as we go along with this adventures, we would come across with different monsters and quest, from the very basic quest and easiest monster up to the most difficult quest and hardest monsters. But unlike in RPGs we only have one life.

Then, are we just wasting our time living?

For me, I would say no. In RPGs, experience is the most important thing. With experience, new levels and skills will be learned. It's the same with life, experience leads us to new skills that we can learn. It also helps us to make decisions based on the memories of the past experiences that we encountered. The experience that we gained is priceless. It can never be sold to anyone. The hardships the we encounter, the pain and pleasure that took our time. Everything that we learned and acquired is like a diamond, it went through a lot of heat before becoming a very beautiful gem.

But its not just the experience but the emotions that we encountered as we ventured across this journey of life. The memories that painted our life with black, red, yellow and many more colors. The memories of our love ones. The memories of the games and animes that I have watched. The memories of the past that I have already forgotten but I know that it still lingers somewhere in my mind. The memories that can no longer be repeated. All those priceless things that made my life and all those things that would still come in my life.

With all those things in mind, I would say, We are not wasting our time living, instead it would be a waste if we did not continue on living. We still have a lot of things to encounter, a lot of monsters to defeat and a lot of quest to achieve. There are still a lot of things in life that you haven't encountered. So why surrender?

Now I ask you.