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Have you ever wondered why GAMES are so popular? Why is pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey still a favorite children's party game? Why is the Jerusalem game still around? Why SuperMario stands as a favorite past time? Have you ever wondered why even the oldest people still continue to play games?

Oh yes, I couldn't agree more. Games are a source of entertainment. They are better than plain watching TV too. Games allow us to be INVOLVED. Games give people a sense of fulfillment.

All games have an end. A happily-ever-after. If they didn't, not many will play them. Perhaps a little suspense at the end. But there's sure to be a sequel to the unfinished horror story.

Have you ever wondered why?

I thought of a simple explanation.

While playing a game, we stop living our real lives and assimilate a fantasy world. We take a break from real life with all its hardships and complications and enter a world where there's one simple end - the finish line - and one simple PATH to that end - destroy all obstacles.

Life offers so many goals. So many ends. And with those, life offers so many choices. There are so many decisions to make but only ONE correct answer. Sometimes we choose the right one. Sometimes we struggle a little because of our choice. But there are those times when we feel like our lives have been "destroyed for good." When you think about it, doesn't it seem like a great load on our shoulders? As puny little humans?

The fantasy world offered to us through games and whatnot provides us with a SIMPLER life. One goal. One end. One choice. The game ends when we reach the finish line. To reach the finish line, all we need to do is beat up the big boss. Oh yes, you can argue that games like the FinalFantasy series offers so many choices - superpowers, skills, alternate endings, and whatnot. But think about it. You still have to finish the game by beating the boss. And when that's done, it's all "Congratulations! You have won!"

In the end, games provide people with satisfaction. The one that's not hard to get. With all the wrong choices one makes in the real world, games let us see that, one way or another, there is a good end to all these things. Games give us hope. Hope that we - insignificant and imperfect humans - can also reach the good end.

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Life is full of ups and downs. Sometimes, problems present themselves one after another. But what all men must remember is that THERE ARE UPS IN OUR LIVES.

Life is full of ups and downs. The quote mentions UPS before downs. Hopefully, we, too, see the ups in our lives before the downs.

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I feel betrayed.
Jesus did too.
This is what He did.

1 Peter 2:23
When they hurled
their insults at him,
he did not retaliate;

when he suffered,
he made no threats.

Instead, he entrusted himself
to him who judges justly.

And that's what
I'll do too.

ThankYou for
Your Example,
Jesus.
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