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The challenge.
September 29, 2009

I've always been like this. If a task was not a challenge in itself, or enjoyable and interesting along the way - then I never found the will to complete it.

Is it lazyness? To insist that the meaning of life should not be to die, but to live well for a number of years? Or perhaps that physical training should be engaging on it's own, with a good feeling of accomplishment - rather than be a chore you have to do in order not to become a disgusting wreck?

I suppose I feel the same way about games. I'm not playing games to complete them, but to enjoy the experience. Winning the game.. not really the point, is it. You don't win anything, after all.

Then again - maybe it's a question about scope. That games on their own - like most fiction or created narratives - must set overall objectives that can be reached and seen. And that this is why I enjoy games so much. Where I don't need to set objectives much on my own. And typically have the illusion of choice, until I inevitably reach the conclusion.

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Then again - I suppose I do like games simply because they are not like reality at all. Where you can explore fictional scenarios and realities, as others see them.

Which, on reflection, sounded a little bit less insane right away.

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