{"id":670056,"date":"2026-09-01T14:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=670056"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:26:12","slug":"what-if-we-treated-life-like-a-not-too-serious-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/01\/what-if-we-treated-life-like-a-not-too-serious-game\/","title":{"rendered":"What if we treated life like a not too serious game?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interesting idea I had the other night\u2026 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? \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why so serious?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actually, if you look at it\u2026 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 \u201cadult\u201c, is, to become morose, \ufffc dark, emo, taking things and life too seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">study children, and kids<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you look at kids, they don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">recovery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you think about games, like video games, points, etc.\u2026 If your character dies, or whatever, we don\u2019t 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\u2026 But often, there is a simple joy to start a new character, a new class, a new something? \ufffc\ufffc\ufffc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting idea I had the other night\u2026 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 \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670057,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670056\/revisions\/670057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}