Minesweeper

I don't usually play games. When I first start a game, I love it and spend hours on it. But after some time, I wonder, 'what's the point?' Yes, I will get coins or points so that my character will upgrade or I will go on to the next level. But what could those coins or points do in my real life? Does it give me anything real? Then I stop the game and turn off my phone/computer. I stare at the dead black screen and think, 'I just spent 2 hours staring at that screen.' I can't help but feeling I have just wasted 2 hours of my life. I regret thinking that I could have been much more productive.

Nonetheless, there is one game that I have been playing as long as I can remember. Minesweeper. My dad taught me how to play a long time ago and ever since, I've been playing it. Yes, there were times I stopped, maybe because I was too busy with some other addictive games like Candy Crush but I always went back to Minesweeper in the end. Last night, I don't know why, I just wanted to play it. Apparently Windows 10 doesn't have it installed automatically, so I had to download it. The graphics were so much different from what I remembered, but the rule was always the same. You click and numbers appear. Those numbers represent the number of mines around that one square and by deduction or guess you find those hidden mines. It was so fun, I couldn't stop. My boyfriend had to trick me into going somewhere else so that he could turn off the computer.

Later that night, I wondered why the game attracted me so much. I guess it was kind of like life itself. You don't know what you are going to face and you try not to hit the mine. You try to go around and make your way through by considering all the steps, based on probability sometimes. But in the end, there is always this one part where it is fifty fifty chance. You just have to believe in your luck. Sometimes you hit the mine when you are not careful but sometimes it's just the chance. I don't know anything else that can describe life more easily than this simple Microsoft game (for now at least. Since I am still young and there are so many things that I don't know yet). The only difference, I guess is that, you can play the same game over and over again to get it right in the end. That, however, applied to the real life, wouldn't be fun at all. 

So my point here is, Minesweeper ROCKS!

xx

Liz