Halo Again!

Since the completion of school, I have found a few small spaces of free time here and there. I have taken this oppourtunity to play a few games of Halo with my brother-in-law and over 500,000 of my closest friends. That's right I have taken to playing Halo on Xbox live. My brother-in-law got me hooked and now I am one of the mindless rabble.

I don't play alot (by my standards anyway) and I am not particularly very good. But I do enjoy it. When the time comes to play I eagerly don the headset, and bask in the luminescent glow from the T.V. I anxiously await the start of the game, gripping the controller tightly in my sweaty palms. Then it happens, joy the game has begun, and I quickly get killed. Over and over again as my frustration grows, I am erased, sometimes I am successful in taking others with me, sometimes not. (By the way most of the time I am getting schooled by some prepubescant with a severe vulgarity problem.) Then the thought inevitably arises, am I really having fun? Why do I keep submitting myself to this? Frustrating as it is, I can't seem to give up.

This same senario also happens on the occasion when I have the chance to play a round of golf. This morning, was such a time and soon after we started, I found myself wondering, why it is that I really like this game? I am terrible, I loose lots of balls, what is the deal? The only bright side that I can figure is the fact that I am at least outdoors and enjoying the world around me.

I know that I am probably not the only one who these kinds of things happen to and I can only hope that I am drawn to these things because they are difficult. In the difficulty I find the excitement. If the games were too easy then I would be bored and have no need to continue playing. On the flipside, if the games are very difficult then I revel in every accomplishment and savor every victory. I guess deep down this is the philosopy of life, and the reason that we all get out of bed everyday and rise to meet the challenges of life. Carry on my friends...

Oh yeah for a few of you Halo geeks that might read this, here are some lyrics that a good friend of mine wrote to the popular Sound of Music tune, These are a few of my favorite things....Lyrics