Possibly the best thing I've read all week, and not just because it says I'm wise :D
You can find the original article at Levi's Last Word on Tumblr.
A very wise girl said to me today: (and i miss-qoute this) “I like Tetris because it all fits together” and this simple statement sparked a deep philosophical debate in my head in which our lives are a living game of Tetris.
- The pieces falling down are the events and plans we have to do in our lives: easy pieces such as lines, mean easy tasks such as driving to the shops, hard shapes like those annoying z’s means harder activities such as…someone hitting our car on the way to shops.
- Depending on the difficulty of the game we play depends on whether we see what is comeing up or not. e.g. on an easy level the nice little Tetris gods tell us we have a nice square comeing up, which is like a rostered shift at work, but then when on a higher difficutly the tetris gods pick fun at us, and throw in the unexpected Z’s and T’s of the reall life world…e.g. Sudden need to use mental mathmatics!!!!
- Now we get on to the clearing of lines! (hold on to your hats kiddos this is where shit gets heavy!) Clearing lines is the goal of both tetris and life, well metaphorical lines in lifes case. When all is going well and we plan ahead or deal with the unexpected Z’s of life, somehow depsite our foolish nature we manage to clear a line. Through planning and clever thought we are able to complete the herculean tasks that we must face everyday and shove that T inbetween the I and the Square, and ultimately come out with a blank slate, A tabula rasa of every day. We have succeeded in completing our everyday tasks and come out with more room to grow and build our next adventure of our Tetris/life.
- But life isnt so simple…oh no! We all love Tetris, Tetris would never betray us, it wants us to come out on top and always have an empty screen, WRONG! Tetris likes to fuck with us, give use shaped that wont fit in with your planning no matter how well you have planned. It gives you a line when you need a square, just when you though you couldn't go wrong with a line it happens. Shitopia! Theres gaps everywhere, unfinished lines all over the place, you life is going to hell, nothing is going right, You’ve lost an arm, you rent out Spanglish because you couldnt find Taxi Driver, and get so pissed off about wasting your time watching a film about a confused American try to pound a Spanish Nanny it emotionally cripples you and you end up abusing your boss at work, These my friends…are the times when Tetris betrays us and we just cant organise our 4 blocked friends together. These are the shit times in our life!
- But, every so often a miracle happens. Tetris pulls out a Jesus on us and everything works out well. Everything seems more aerodynamic and streamline, shapes are fitting in which you thought they could never fit in before, AND BANG! You have tetris, 4 lines gone at once. Pure bliss, this is rare and hard to accomplish but when you pull it off, its worth it. Bonuses fly through the roof, you cant control the endorphin high you get, you cant lose now your unstopable, you just finished work half an hour early and get to go home and sneak in an extra episode of How I Met Your Mother before you have to go out. These moments, are the Tetris’ of life, and its what we live and play for!
