Time is a series of fleeting moments of our experiences, but yet its pressure burdens us in our everyday lives. It is intriguing to dissect time and to find the answers as to why time has become our master and us its slaves. I feel that, if we let time dictate our path, we become machines, thus inhibiting us from truly enjoying the opportunities and the joy that life gives us. The comfort that we experience in life helps each of us live our life to the fullest. Bad experiences and good experiences are both groundbreaking foundations of our being and our reality we experience. Through a gaming perspective, one would think that reality is a video game that has an open-world concept with a slice-of-life factor and bunch of other factors mixed into it. Many people are bored with the everyday life that they are leading, but finding a rhythm to what your purpose in life is; that is when everything comes into perspective. Then time becomes nothing but a unit to our existence as we go on in enjoying our lives. Yet, if there is more to time and life than just leading them – like we have been leading them since our evolution – then I would like to understand that. I know that time has become a defining fact to our existence, but I feel that it is naive to think that there is not much to do but carry on our day-to-day life. That is surviving rather than enjoying life. Never let people constrict you in doing what you want to do because at the end of the day it comes down to individual decisions rather than a joint decision because you are the master of your destiny. Though time is an intangible unit, we can feel it through ageing and constant discovery of ourselves through experiences.

Time is a constant variable throughout our lives, but it also tells us that we only get one chance at it, hence best not to waste it, but to embrace the connections and the people that are around you, to be honest it can get kind of hard to do that, because of our commitments that we set for ourselves day-to-day in hopes of our character growing. Looking through a gaming perspective again, we can keep playing the same character without it ageing, and if it dies, it respawns from our saved point, which abolishes the constraint of time being a factor for the character. It is important to understand that time is, in a sense, wasted when playing games like that; however, we find it entertaining and also helps our mind with being tactful rather than using for creativity. That does not mean games do not use creative side either. In fact, on the contrary, taking your time to invent novel solutions to problems allows us to be creative and therefore allows us to conceptualize the inner fury of our passion within our soul. Time is an important factor throughout our lives as beings of evolution.

Lastly, I want to end this by stating that time is a luxury as well as important in developing one’s peace of mind and also sharing the joy of life with people around you. Time helps gamers create creative perspectives of survival while playing the game in reality as well as virtually.

Over time, the games play can change how we think and what we’re capable of. And it is easy to maximize the benefits so the changes are positive.

— Jane McGonigal