Thoughts about Reincarnation & Gaming

Those of you who know me personally know I'm an avid gamer, or at least I was. Lately, I've decided to consciously drop gaming as a hobby in favor of opening up to the changes coming into my life as part of stepping into my soul's mission. Gotta make energetic room for what's coming.

That said, the fact remains I have been an avid gamer all of my life. I'm not the type of gamer who likes to get achievements, nor one who likes to hunt other players over much. Player vs Player aspects of games have generally been not too interesting for me to enjoy. More frustrating than fun.

However, exploration and character creation is one of my favorite aspects. So is modding, which is the act of changing the game to suit my purposes. It's why I love games like Skyrim, Oblivion, Black Desert Online, Elder Scrolls Online, and the Fallout series. Sandboxes are my cup of tea. I can choose to ignore the main quest if I like. I can go off and create my own adventures. I have crafted hundreds of in-depth characters with complete backstories, histories, personalities, and set up for them their own quest lines that don't even exist in the game. I can add mods to the game that change it so my storyline and character is easier to manifest as I'm playing--so it feels more real.

Yes, I'm one of those weirdos that adds survival mechanics and makes my characters eat, drink, sleep, get frostbite if it's too cold, etc.

As I have become more spiritually aware, I'm now realizing that what I LOVE to do is exactly what my soul loves to do. My soul LOVES character creation--or incarnation planning. I can tell by how much thought and love I, in my human form, put into each character I create in a game. One of the favorite stages is planning their skills and major plot points in the playthrough.

Then comes playing the character, which doesn't always work out.

Anyway, there's a saying, "As above, so below. As below, so above."

All that I've done is games is just an echo of the hundreds and thousands of times my soul has done this with a body. And ultimately, it is the integration of this understanding that has caused me to stop playing video games. Because, this body I'm in--this human form, this incarnation--is my soul's character. Seems to me, playing games is a great way of not playing the game my soul wants to play, which is life.

Which is why I'm now focusing on playing life and trying to view my life from the perspective of a soul with an incarnation that's trying to get through all the relevant plot points it planned for this incarnation. Kinda fun to look at life that way. I'm a character in a game of my soul's design.