Stop And Look Around
Either I've been blind or asleep. I was bored today, so I played my offline URU just to walk around and enjoy some of the environments. I knew of the Eder Gira day/night cycle, but never saw it for myself until today. I came upon deep dusk, and then nighttime. I NEVER knew Gira had two moons! Seeing the moons, the stars, the lone bird that flies around the distant towers...it was so beautiful!
Then I decided to finally try to see a Shroomie. I shut off the machinery. I had forgotten how many sounds of the Teledahn wildlife there are that the loud drone of the machines drown out. I went to the spore feeder at the open ocean, watching, waiting. I looked up and saw that the stars come out in this Age, but it's different than in Gira. Due to the sun's fast orbit and the constant cloud cover, the stars have a glittery effect, almost like stardust. Then I heard the loud keening--thar she blows! She came fairly close too!
It's amazing, all the little things I failed to observe the first time I played URU. It was probably because I was so excited, so focused on solving the puzzles and finding the Journeys, following the Path. For EoA, I am going to take my time. I will drink in every sight and sound until I can feel each Age in my bones.
This has made me realize that I should do the same for life. I'm sure that eveyone's been guilty of this at some point: you wake up, you eat breakfast and wash up, you go to work/school, you go home, you go to bed, and repeat for the next day, and the next, and the next. You have a pattern, a routine, and you get so used to it that it becomes second nature. Occasionally you break the pattern with a Friday/Saturday night outing with friends, but then even that turns into a cycle of dinner and a movie. You move through life without really paying attention.
I like having a pattern to my life in a way, but sooner or later I get into a rut. And then I get depressed. One needs a change of pace. It need not be so dramatic as quitting your job or changing your major. Sometimes all it takes is a look at the stars on your way to the parking lot, or walking a different route to your class. To just stop and look around you. You never know what you could learn just by stopping and smelling the roses.
What do you see? I should ask myself this question in life, as well as in games.
Then I decided to finally try to see a Shroomie. I shut off the machinery. I had forgotten how many sounds of the Teledahn wildlife there are that the loud drone of the machines drown out. I went to the spore feeder at the open ocean, watching, waiting. I looked up and saw that the stars come out in this Age, but it's different than in Gira. Due to the sun's fast orbit and the constant cloud cover, the stars have a glittery effect, almost like stardust. Then I heard the loud keening--thar she blows! She came fairly close too!
It's amazing, all the little things I failed to observe the first time I played URU. It was probably because I was so excited, so focused on solving the puzzles and finding the Journeys, following the Path. For EoA, I am going to take my time. I will drink in every sight and sound until I can feel each Age in my bones.
This has made me realize that I should do the same for life. I'm sure that eveyone's been guilty of this at some point: you wake up, you eat breakfast and wash up, you go to work/school, you go home, you go to bed, and repeat for the next day, and the next, and the next. You have a pattern, a routine, and you get so used to it that it becomes second nature. Occasionally you break the pattern with a Friday/Saturday night outing with friends, but then even that turns into a cycle of dinner and a movie. You move through life without really paying attention.
I like having a pattern to my life in a way, but sooner or later I get into a rut. And then I get depressed. One needs a change of pace. It need not be so dramatic as quitting your job or changing your major. Sometimes all it takes is a look at the stars on your way to the parking lot, or walking a different route to your class. To just stop and look around you. You never know what you could learn just by stopping and smelling the roses.
What do you see? I should ask myself this question in life, as well as in games.
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