The game Tetris & Human life on Earth - Commonalities

I love Tetris and I love the game of life on planet Earth.

(source of photo - http://www.chessthecat.com/articles/video_games/favorite_games.htm)

No matter who you are on the planet, once you have played the game Tetris your world becomes one big game of Tetris.   We are continually putting things in the place as we see fit.  The places are our choice as we do this task one piece at a time.  Each shape, each color, each rotation that we choose is unique and wants a place to exist or not exist anymore.  Each Tetris piece has many possibilities of fitting in different places and at different angles and locations.

Now in life I am grabbing each experience and/or task everyday and handling it in the best way that fits for me at this time and space in my existence.   Pieces are handled differently at different moments throughtout existence.  Ask me to do something now at 36 years old and it will be done with a different twist and mindset than at the age of 16 or at 56 years old in the future.   This is why each Tetris game is different and each round gets cooler and more challenging.

Life is about putting items in the best place possible for you, others and the Universe.  I do this by taking each entity of my life and having it become the most loving and life-enhancing force for me in the Universe.  I don't always succeed with every piece, but since the pieces are continually coming at me I have many opportunities to re-adjust and fix the previously mis-stacked pieces and have awareness of their existence.

In Tetris you can see all of the pieces clearly by looking at the entire screen and in life we can see them too, but many times we are too busy just stacking pieces without the consideration of other pieces that need help from below.  In our lives these pieces were the experiences that we left in the past, but nevertheless still at part of the game.  They can appear and re-appear based on how much we choose to pay attention to them or not.

Indeed there can be many analogies of how Tetris is similar to life.  This Blog posting is simply coming from the brain matter of DTO at this moment in time.  I am unaware if other human beings have made such analogy and nevertheless, this is my contribution to the musings of the commonalities of the game Tetris and human life on Earth.

Just to prove how popular Tetris still is I went to the official Tetris website and just in one day there have been 688,183 games played so far.  (source: http://www.tetrisfriends.com/)

By the way, Tetris usually has that crazy song playing the whole time just like those wild and weird distractions that come up that get us off task.  You can get used to it, mute the music or just crank it and rock out with it!

Let's all be grateful for the air we breathe that keeps us alive to play another game of Tetris.

Let's all play full out!  Play Tetris for FREE here:  http://www.freetetris.org/game.php

DTO


- Tetris was invented by a Russian man by the name of Alexey Pajitnov in 1985 with the help of some collegues.  (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Pajitnov)