Digital Dreams

Another sleepless night, though this time from my own fault. I climb into bed, hoping for an early night and end up losing myself in Harvest Moon for four hours. It is insane that such a simple game can suck you in so deeply, that as I feel my eyelids weighed down by the burden of exhaustion I still keep playing. Maybe my mom is right, maybe I am a bit addicted to games. It's just so much easier than real life, as stupid as that sounds. Sometimes I wish life was like a video game. If you aren't quite sure about a decision, then save first and reload if you don't like the outcome. You'd always know that you were moving forward because you'd get a checkpoint alert. You'd never have to worry about taking risks because you couldn't really get hurt. Anything you might really need to overcome an obstacle would be provided, or at least you'd be told where to look for it. And if everything just goes to shit around you, or if you just get tired of where you're at, all you have to do is hit reset and start over from the beginning. Unfortunately, existence isn't anything like that, you always have to go through the hard way, no cheat codes to type in and lighten the load.