Life Is A Fighting Game You Can Win

Have fun by playing it the right way!

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You might not like fighting games nor games at all and yet you’ve been playing one since the day you were born. The game of life is a real thing whether you like it or not.

Just like in any game, your life meets unexpected developments and downfalls but you have to keep moving forward. Yes, it might feel easier to compare life to an adventure game, but I believe the best comparison is with fighting games. And the best example I currently have is Super Smash Bros Ultimate — just called “Smash” from here on.

Let me start by explaining in an easy way how the game works. Instead of having a life bar, you have a percentage and the higher it gets, the easier it is to be thrown out of the stage. The goal is to throw the other out the stage limits first.

Now that you understand the very basics, let me show you how similar life is.

Start with learning

Just like in anything, you start the game not knowing how to do anything. You need to learn the buttons, how they can be combined and how to interact with the stage.

Anything you want to accomplish in your life will have to be started somewhere. And that somewhere is at a stage where you don’t know anything about the…