I am not blessed with a phone with a humongous memory so subsequently, I can't download Candy Crush.I felt sad for a few minutes after my phone informed me that i did not have enough phone memory to download the game of my life then I realized I have a Facebook account and Wi-Fi from my good neighbor whose name I don't know and
I am not a serious gamer. I don't even know how to hold a gaming pad (I know i have lost eligible bachelors with that statement) so I like silly games. I have finished all types of Papa Arcade (its this really cool food game, you will love it -lemme know if they have added another cafeteria and i will be on that website faster than Kemeto). After this phase in my life, I took on Bejeweled which I am amazing at then Temple run which I never got really good at then the answer to all my gaming prayers came true in the form of CANDY CRUSH SAGA
This is like everything I like all in one place - I am talking about the candy itself. It is like being let loose in Diamond Plaza food court or those corridor shop in allllll malls that sell sweets in kilos. If you don't know what i am talking about, you have no business playing candy crush. All in all, after you get through the initial Sugar crushes and divines, you continue with the game, not because the levels get easier but because you want to see where the endless path might lead - pretty much like life. Is there a last level in Candy crush? -Food for thought, or might I say, candy for thought :-)
I love the game for all the waste of time and passing of time it represents but also because I have derived a couple of life lessons from the game. Yes. A couple. Why would anyone try to make a philosophy from Candy Crush, you say? Well, because I can.
Take Candy Crush as your life. Fit that shoe, fitted? Good. Lets learn.
1. Never give up
CC: You use up all 5 lives,you get stuck in one level for 3 days (level 70 is a *ch) but you still spend every waking moment figuring the level until you are able to pass the level and with all 3 stars.
Lesson: Naturally, when we do something we supposedly want to do for the rest of our lives, not the ones forced on you by society or to pay bills, we stop doing it after a total of one try and give excuses for the rest of the time. Imagine if you applied this attitude to your goals.....you would be on your way to greatness.
2. Focus
CC: Every level of the game has a goal e.g. clear all the jelly or bring all the ingredients to the bottom. This is what you are supposed to do. There are many distractons of course but the only way to or rather, the one thing you have to do is clear the jelly. No more, no less.
Lesson: You have to keep your eye on the goal no matter what is going on around you. As humans, we get really distracted and by the time we realize, we are on our way to Rumuruti, while you were headed to Kisumu. Keep your eye on the prize. No matter what.
3. Know the game
CC: There are those levels that are not like the others. There are these circular electric circles that act like as doorways to the other box - you get the picture. I stayed in one level for 4 days because I hadn't taken time to learn the significance of the electric circles but when I got the drift, I was five levels up in 10 minutes.
Lesson: You want something, lets say, you want to become a real estate mogul. Sweetheart, take time to know how the industry works in the country, who are the movers and who are the shakers. Do your homework. This applies to everything. Do your research, know how things work. Don't do things without market research then blame everybody if it doesn't work.
4.Think
CC: You are given 15 moves to get 300000 as a score. This are very few moves according to candy crush counting. You gotta ask yourself, how am I going to get to the required score of the level and not run out of moves. If you start playing without thinking about it, you are wasting your time.
Lesson: Use your brain. Most of us don't like thinking and most of us don't like thinking. We let people think for us hence our stagnation in everything really. THINK, that is why you have a brain.
5. Ask for help
CC: All levels have power ups. These are meant to help you get to the next level faster and with a higher score.
Lesson: It took a while before I could bring myself to use the power ups because in my head, I thought they made me less able to play the game. That my friend, its called pride. NO ONE has the monopoly of knowledge in anything. No matter how good you think you are, someone else knows something you don't, even if they are not as accomplished as you are.
6. One right move is all it takes
CC: Have you ever played one move and it leads to this avalanche of moves and all you have to do is sit back and watch your score increase and win the game? I love when that happens.
Lesson: Keep doing what you are doing and one day, you will make a move and everything else will fall in place. Its like retiring at 30 and your money works for you and until you make the golden move, don't stop e.g. Looking for Johnny was Yemi Alade's move and suddenly, everyone is looking for Johnny.
7. Not all that is chocolate is sweet
CC: The spreading chocolate is the mot annoying, sardistic candy of them all. Nkt.
Lesson: People will always want to appear like they are rooting for you and they have your back until you start rising and they become the proverbial knife in the back. Be cautious, take it from me, the least expected people will be there for you. The ones who you expect to might as well kill you. Not everything or anyone who appears good has good intention.
CC: You can only match like colors that are alike most of the time. This is the only way you win the game. Blue and green don't create any effect, but blue and blue make you inch closer to the ultimate win.
Lesson: Please note that I have used the word 'LIKE-MINDED' so for the racist people reading this post, it ain't about the color, no, its about what you want, where you want to be in a few years, what you want in life. People who want different things in life will only bring you down.
9. There is power in diversity
CC: When you match a stripped candy and a wrapped candy, they form this humongous tripped candy that has a horizontal and diagonal effect. It is amazing :-)
Lesson: Yes, there is power in being different. You could be like-minded but have fundamental differences. This difference can only make you stronger, bigger, better. People are afraid of diversity. Lets face it, we live in a world where if all people were black, we would still find something to separate us like the different shades of black.In this regard, when two or more diverse people come together, they become an unstoppable force, they create something beautiful. e.g instead of displaying the foolishness of I am kikuyu, i am Luo - how about you start a mixed band and have the audience of the two tribes? Be a legend, not some stupid tribalist.
Please note: I believe i speak for all Facebook gamers when i say this: when we invite you to play the game, we really don't care if you do, we are earning more lives. Get over yourself.
Regards, L.O.P
