Agree or disagree: “Playing games teaches us about life.” |
“Life is a game.” This simple statement may at first glance seem absurd. However, there are numerous factors in a game that resembles a real life. In fact, we can learn a lot from playing games. First of all, games delivers almost every skills needed to deal with people: competing with a rival, deceiving other, concealing one’s emotion, and reading other person’s mind. When you do the chess, you have to concentrate on the game in order to win. Every time you move a piece, you have to be very careful. It is the way we compete with others in reality. Sometimes it is necessary to deceive the other if you want to make a chance to check. Even though you have difficulty you have to hide your mental state because letting the rival know your feeling might encourage him to be bold. The only difference between the chess and real life is the ground on which it is played. In addition to the advantages of acquiring social skills above, you can also learn how to control yourself. Games are repeated, so are the events of real situation. One time lose do not mean you cannot play anymore. Likewise, a failure does not harm one’s whole life to the extent that you cannot live more. You will notice that a little mistake you have made in a game would not make disastrous outcome at all in many cases. Through this, you come to know how to ignore small things in your everyday activities. What’s more, a game teaches us that we have to plan for the future. In an effort not to lose the game, the player has to pay attention to the possible scenario that will entail the present selection. In short, a game contains virtually all aspects of real human life. The skills to control oneself and deal with other people in society can be learned from the game. It should be reminded that playing game presupposes the existence of the other player. That is a game is indeed the small copy of the actual world. |