What Minecraft Can Tell Us About Life

Minecraft is currently the best-selling video game. The game allows players a lot of creativity. The main themes of the game are exploration of the virtual world, and also survival and fighting. For many children today, there is a sense that if they are not called away from the game, then they would be willing to live in it forever. Why is this so? It is because such a game answers our every question. Several people think that the future lies in entering into this network of communications between us and living in an entirely virtual world. Our life is also a game, but we are unaware of it. We are made to go to work, earn money, and buy things in order to fulfill ourselves. Who are the winners in this game of life? The winners are those who ask, “What is the meaning of the game, what is it all for?” And what is the game for? It is in order for us to ask about its meaning and purpose. When we do so, then the game seemingly stops, and we wish to find out why everything exists, why the stars, the air, the Earth, and people all exist, and why we are alive among this vast picture that is before us. These are eternal questions. By asking them, we seemingly return to our childhood when we once asked these questions, and these questions eventually lead us to their solution.