Is Your Life Becoming More and More Like A Video Game?

Which levels have you cleared so far? Think about the powers you've picked up along the way, and count the number of lives you've burned through. Chances are you've never framed your days in quite those terms.

Every night when I sleep, I find myself dropped into a kind of virtual reality. The dreams come loaded with their own missions. I rack up plenty of defeats there and the odd win here and there. The strange part is that it feels like unfinished work, the stuff that never got done while the sun was up, following me into the dark. Is that a fair trade, catching up on tasks after midnight? I could use some advice. Night is supposed to be for rest, after all. Lately the closest I come to real stillness is during meditation.

Try the exercise yourself. Sit with the idea for a while. Looking at your own life through that lens might turn up something you hadn't seen before.

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