No Focus, No Progress: Why a Personal Quest is Important!
It’s not just for computer games.
Back in the day, I played computer games. This was a promotion from the pinball parlour to space invaders, also at the pinball parlour, and then on to adventure games.
My favourite at the time was Space Quest. I would spend hours figuring out the puzzles, traps and bonuses to win at all costs. My wife and I stayed up until the early hours working on why we couldn’t get past the swamp. When we discovered how, well, did we celebrate! You’d think we’d won the lottery!
Our friends played their own game too and we’d swap ideas (“cheat codes in real life”) to help solve the mystery. We wouldn’t tell each other. We’d provide cryptic clues to let everyone enjoy “figuring it out”.
It was, literally, all fun and games … and no-one got hurt.
Life is like that.
It can be all fun and games, maybe with the occasional “knee scrape” of the ego, the setback of a “stubbed toe” that causes us to cry out in pain and then get on with whatever we were doing.
Just like a computer game requires focus and concentration, life, to be lived well, also requires a lot of focus and concentration.
