A teacher who had to speak about life to teenage boys, came up with such analogy:
“You see boys, life it’s a lot like a Super Mario game; you don’t start to play this game, and then instead of moving around, just standing at one spot. That would be boring, and time in game is limited anyway, so you’d die very soon if you wouldn’t move.
But to move around, represent certain risk too, as you can fall into cliff or you can get eaten by, errr, evil looking mushroom. But, on other hand, as you move around, you’ll get some additional lives, so even if something bad will happened to you, you’ll still get new chance. As you move around, you also get more experiences, and you see a lot of interesting worlds. You can also collect a lot of shiny coins scattered all around the world. Of course, from time to time, you must fight a dragon, but reward is a kiss by a sweet princes. The only purpose of this game is, to play it, to take a risk and move around.
And the same it’s true for life. What’s the point of life if not to take a risk, and move, instead of being stuck on one point? Yes you come to the cliffs over which you must jump; yes, you meet evil mushrooms, and furious dragons on your way, - but you’re also getting kisses by princesses; you’re also start seeing all beautiful surroundings of this world, you’re getting experiences, you’re collecting golden coins of wisdom, and some magical force is giving you always another chance when you’re failing.”
The game of life:
- time in game is limited, as you come to the end of one level, you get more time; hence, if you don’t move around, you’ll have game over very fast,
- there are evil mushrooms, but you can jump either over or on them, and get rid of them,
- there are many cliffs, over which you must jump - but, you were gifted with great ability of long jumps,
- there are dragons, but when you beat them, you come to the princess,
- there are golden coins (of wisdom), and when you collect enough of them, you get one additional life (chance),
- all around the world you’re finding hidden “treasures”, like “kind mushrooms” which are making you bigger and stronger; yes, there are kind mushrooms too, not only evil, and you must learn which to take and which to jump over.
