Every now and again, if you don’t look too hard, you’ll get a little dose of the meaning of life.
Now don’t get excited, this is just one of my meanings, and it may or may not have crap to do with you and yours.
I was sitting here quietly, waiting for Rick and watching Ready Player One again. I’d recommended the book to a friend this week, and like I do, let them know that it has absolutely nothing to do with the movie except the names of the charcters.
It was one of the last scenes, where Halliday looks back at Wade and says, “Thank you for playing my game,” that hit me right in the feels. For Halliday, creating games was everything that he had to offer to the world in his own mind- it was the way he connected to people, to show them he wanted them to feel what he felt when playing a really good game. Thrills and puzzle solving and laughter and joy in the creativity of minds around him- all the joys of geekdom.
And whether it’s blogs like this, or random conversations, or whole books.. I realized why I create. To connect with people, to make them laugh and maybe cry but mostly just feel for a little while what I do when I think about these characters and their story.
For years, I’ve felt that to create is as close as we get to the divine. And today I wonder if that is why we’re here… to connect to one another, learn, play, and create in our own turn.
In any case, I guess there’s no better way to end this shared epiphany than by saying… thank you for reading my stuff.
Curiouser and Curiouser 