RPG Life

We all live an RPG Life. Let me explain...

An RPG is a roleplaying videogame. You start as a greenhorn with few abilities and strengths. Your minimal possessions includes a few coins, a short sword, and leather armor. The only enemies you can defeat are exceedingly weak ones. And thankfully, you only face weak enemies at the start of the game. As you progress, you gain money, experience, and stronger weapons that give you the ability to dominate the enemies you faced at the beginning of the game. Unfortunately, those weak enemies are nowhere to be found. Instead, you begin facing harder, more challenging foes. And so it goes: As your weapons and strength increase, so too do the abilities of your enemies. The game consists of a directly proportional increase of your abilities and the challenges you face. In other words, things never get easy!

Sound familiar? It should. It's our lives. We spend our time pursuing money, status, and possessions which help us confront the problems we face.
But once we achieve those things, a peculiar thing happens. It never gets easy. We never reach a point where we have enough possessions, money, status, or relationships that we can sit back and barely be bothered with problems. We don't reach a resting point. Or, if we do, we become so bored that we desperately look for something to occupy ourselves with.

Our problems remain even though we have more things or more money or better relationships. The game of life adjusts to our abilities to offer us a rather constant level of difficulty.

So what to do? Well, just know that we always need problems. That's the nature of the mind. So don't believe that once you level-up or acquire that new dragon's bane sword that you're going to be free and easy.