Lineth Abigael

Candy Crush: More Than Just That

Life, at times, is like Candy Crush. We often take things for granted, but the truth is we just have a single, limited life.

In relationships, comparison with the said app can also be considered. Why? Appreciation is the word. We often have that thinking of go-on-life-goes-on-I-can-do-what-I-want. Then when that special person moves out, we regret. A single move can actually make a big difference. Once you switched the candies, there’s no undo button. No exchange and no return policy it is.

We wait, tarry, and sit back. Thirty minutes seems to take like forever. We look at the clock as if it’s hypnotizing. As we close our eyes, we see candies crushing all by themselves! Then we suddenly realize we shouldn’t just wait like that. We searched for alternatives, and we found out that thing which gives us infinity lives. It was a breath of fresh air. But on the other side, we became even more careless.

Moving on without limitations is perfection. But with this, we trance a bit faster than the others. We don’t actually have time to take it all slowly and enjoy the moment. Instead of doing other things while waiting, we focus on this certain thing and rush things up. Happiness can be felt for a while. Sooner or later, it’ll be gone. It might give love letters now, but it’ll bombard us with hate mails after.

That chocolate candy bomb gives a huge smile just like the big opportunities that come in our lives. We tend to focus on this powerful candy and forget the basics. We strive hard to crush it with its co-powerful candies so as to give us better results. We try and try to do this, but we suddenly forget our limitations—our moves are counted. Then what’s next? We fail. Basics are still vital even though we feel like we can already walk on water.

Numbers will be just numbers. If we’ll let them devour us, then we won’t live life to the fullest. We should just be careful with what we do. The app doesn’t have an undo button. If we don’t want to waste what we worked for and start over, we should have that brain-first-before-anything-else mentality.

These things made me realize what life is. Who would ever think I can write beyond what Candy Crush is? Perhaps one more thing needs to be taken into consideration: look at the different angles of life. We’ll never know where true diamonds are.