Caerulean
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Posted - 2011.11.08 16:45:00 -
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I've been playing Eve for years, largely because it's one of the few games out there that provides a challenge and doesn't follow the formula, "follow prearranged path, execute action, continue along path(s), gain sense of achievement, buy new game." From time to time I burn out on Eve after having tried most of the possibilities. I go away for a bit, come back, resub, repeat. The only other games that I really enjoy and come back to consistently are the complex grand strategy games like Victoria 1 and 2, Hearts of Iron, etc. You could try those.
Boredom is one of the modern world's most powerful motivators I've recently learned. We bend over backwards to avoid it, even if dealing with it would be far simpler. It's the reason for much of the world's ignorance, apathy, general nihilism, and perhaps even malnutrition. When we are not stimulated or entertained we either frantically search for something to return to that state, or we feel that we lose some kind of meaning or enjoyment in life, when the reality is that meaning and joy are created or found by us and what we choose to place them in or into them.
There will always be books, and I've found there are too many to read in a single lifetime, even if just read once - and the best ones deserve to be read more than a single time, or perhaps in their native tongue, which takes years of preparation and brings an entirely new reading.
Explore the dying world of music which few people really actually delve into these days. Most people don't realize that art music is still alive, let alone the intricacies involved in it, and tend to shirk it for arbitrary reasons: ignorance, boredom, difficulty, lack of perceptual grounding, etc.
Some people, when they find that there's something missing in the world, create something to fill in the gaps. Gaps they fill, not only in the world or in others, but in themselves that they feel must absolutely, unequivocally be dealt with. It's from this that meaning and purpose are derived. And it's a difficult path that takes dealing with adversity, boredom, and even death, but those bring more meaning still. It's all about choices and the perception of choices.
I was once told that the two most important questions ever asked were Plato's "What is a human being?" and Kierkegaard's "Why should I get out of bed in the morning?" I've realized over the years, that those questions are one in the same, with the same ambiguous, protean, amoebic answer that you have to nail down to the floorboards daily with spikes of sweat and sinew and brain matter just to even get a glimpse of it. You may search and search for it and never find it, but one day, unexpectedly, there it is again, come out of hiding to slap you in the face to remind you that you're a fool and that it only matters when you choose to be open to seeing it. |