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Does life have a final boss?
- Thread starter out_of_touch
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Separation from loved ones is what I fear most. I'm very close to my parents who are in their 70's and the thought that I'll never see them again when their time comes keeps me up at night..
Death is the final boss. Retirement is a late boss. I just wish the levels/stages would stop moving/slow down. Still early 40s, married, no kids and I'm super dreading getting old. When I was younger I had full plans to live to a 100 (nobody in my family ever hit the century mark). I've been visiting senior homes as part of my work and it's super depressing going in them. The bed rooms smell like pee and poo despite the daily cleaning. I don't want that life but I know it's inevitable if/when I get to my late 70s.
Loneliness, cause unless you and your SO die together in some accident one of you will outlive the other for a couple of years at least.
Retirement. You survived through all the bullshit and put in your time, now it's time to explore the world as you see fit
But a final boss can be beaten. It's just super hard and may take a long ass time.
Death isn't the final boss. Death is just the late-game plot twist where it seems like the hero lost but actually you intentionally let yourself get taken down so you can face the true final boss, God.
If you want to view life as a game (you really want to do that?) see it as a sandbox where you can do what you like until you can't. You'll spend a decade or so building up your XP to the point where you can live independently. You'll spend a lot of time, many decades perhaps, trying to innovate, to disrupt the rules that have been set by others who came before you. And then if you're lucky you'll find a way to live your life and find happiness.
At any point in the game, a random occurrence may jump in and say "Game Over." To the best of my knowledge, this is not followed by "Insert coin."
That's more like a permanent debuff that you can't remove. And you get that fairly early on.
Death is not the final boss. Life is a system and death is just a milestone. You are born and you live your life. You die and you begin your life again forever repeating the life plus/minus few details with no memory of previous instances not in the same reality but in another place. Life continues without you after your death the same way it had intended to continue before your birth ultimately to whatever end is in store for this existence.
Or.. the final boss is your Wife.
Or.. the final boss is your Wife.
Scientists have been working on the patch pretty much since we've had science.
Or maybe reality doesn't agree with your expectations. Beliefs probably don't influence outcomes, though that's a popular trope in fiction.
"Born in a diamond mine
It's all around you but you can't see it
Born in a diamond mine
It's all around you but you can't touch it"
It's all around you but you can't see it
Born in a diamond mine
It's all around you but you can't touch it"
