Life as a game of Candy Crush.!?!?
I came upon this note today on my iPhone that I thumbed on a plane flight a year or two ago (when I was addicted to Candy Crush). I hope you enjoy it.
Living life for me is eerily similar to playing candy crush. Here’s why:
It gets harder with every accomplishment
Failure sometimes comes by chance.
Success sometimes also comes by chance
You can and should count on chance, you just never know when it will show up.
Keep trying to succeed, even after many failures
It’s really only a failure anyway if you didn’t learn anything from it
You can always take the easy way out and buy support
Purchased support might move you forward but deep down you feel less accomplished (learned) for bypassing the challenge
Look for the free help
Focus on big moves (stripe or world) to win
There is no end to the journey
There are new challenges with every level
There is always somebody who has done better than you
If you want to move a lot of parts, focus on the foundation
Don’t forget about the fringe, they will eventually cause problems
Sometimes just blowing everything up moves you significantly forward
You need to score points along the way
Some challenges are time based not outcome based
Sometimes you are better off putting it down and waiting until tomorrow
You should look a step or two ahead, but too much strategy is meaningless as all the pieces will change quickly
Be sure to react to how pieces organize themselves after every move
Just because you remove obstacles doesn’t mean new ones won’t show up. That would be no fun.
You should be moving forward with every move (movement not just motion)
The more obstacles, the more challenging and also the more rewarding
The easy levels are confidence builders that keep you in the game
If there were only an undo!
The more you play the game, the more disappointed those are around you that you aren’t focusing on them!
And finally, if you break your phone and haven’t backed up your game you will lose all your progress and data. Ok, admittedly this only applies to Candy Crush. smile emoticon. But it did stop my addiction…