Human photography essay

What if we treated life like a not too serious game?

Interesting idea I had the other night… What if we treated life like a not too serious game? Then perhaps, perhaps we could proceed through this life with more joy, fun, lightheartedness, ease and Presto? 

Why so serious?

Actually, if you look at it… To be too serious about things, is perhaps like some sort of thing we are taught and socialize to be? To become grown-up or “adult“, is, to become morose,  dark, emo, taking things and life too seriously.

study children, and kids

If you look at kids, they don’t take anything too seriously. To them, life is simple, play, and opportunity! Even when kids get upset, they get upset for short periods of time, then quickly get over it, and it escapes their consciousness. It does not linger.

recovery

If you think about games, like video games, points, etc.… If your character dies, or whatever, we don’t take it too seriously, it might be a little bit, annoying that we sunk so much time into it, and that we have to start over again… But often, there is a simple joy to start a new character, a new class, a new something? 


A game without points?

If you think about Calvin and Hobbes, “Calvin ball”–> the general idea is… The game in which we played… Not to keep track with points, or numbers or whatever… But just to simply enjoy the game?


The philosophy of creation

The purpose of life to create?

The philosophy of wealth & power?

Wealth simply as a means to creation? And once you create something… You feel a surge of power?

Always make it ever more, even more extreme?

Make it into its own character? Story telling

Scenarios?

The new Bugatti destrier–> Bugatti or nothing >

Whatever motivates you, irregardless of how strange, is good?

Every day, try to save a little bit more time

It’s just part of the routine, the same old routine,,, is good… doesn’t even matter the routine will always be a little bit different?

The invincible god

The goal!

ERIC


After-thrusters

Keep practicing, never stop practicing?

Life

To simply create one thing a day and share it every day… Maybe this is the purpose of life?

ERIC


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ERIC KIM

Photographer, blogger, street photography educator, artist-publisher. Human-generated essays from the pavement, the camera, the body, and the real world.