As real as your life

“The boundary in my brain that divides real from fantasy has finally begun to crumble.”

From a video by Michael Highland

Not that our brains malfunction; It is that the technology advancement and the very purposes of the development make us feel this way.

A lot of us then think that the visual world is fun and engaging. They, especially teenagers who are not mentally mature enough, love the fantasy more than the reality. Where else can give them more success than winning games and getting praise and recognition from peers? School? Ironically, it’s school make most of them suffer (examinations, expectation, etc.). And do schools teach us something about separating the visual from the real? No. Or maybe I should suggest that our education includes the issue to the syllabus, from kindergarten onwards.

Parents worry. Teachers worry. Sociologists worry.

However, I don’t think there’s anyone to blame on the phenomenon or the problems related to video games, such as addiction, violence, and attention deficit disorder.

Or else, if anyone wants to take the responsibility, that will be the responsibility of everyone, because, I believe the problems are the byproducts of the evolution of our society. Unless you want to go back to the time human being burnt candles at night, to the time that we didn’t even have access to electricity, the problems will always be there.

Byproducts, I mean they are things that we can never get rid of, just like the oxygen from photosynthesis. It’s also a byproduct. But the natures of the byproducts, welcome or unwanted, are factors we always have to accept and are not able to change. We should always bear in mind that those are parts of our lives, parts of our society, and parts of the progress of the world. Is there anything such perfect that we always have what we want and God help take away what we don’t want?

Anyway, I don’t like negative nor believe in fate. There’re roads but not rails. It’s not necessary to follow things lie before us. We have brains and we can create. What if there’s a game that teaches us to respect each other or help us understand the problems we’re all facing in the real world, as Michael in the video mentioning? There’s great potential video games do good!

As great power come great responsibility, actually those who have more control over the situation can/should do something to better our world. The bad we can’t erase, the good we can do more. Say, a metaphor, there is a scales. Why not we keep inputting good things to improve our society?

ACTION!