Tetis: Boredom, addiction, life?

   Recently, I have been playing tetris battle on facebook for at least an hour a day. Tetris battle is where you can either play against your friends or play against other people on facebook, but when you play against other people, it is not live, you just play against their recorded game from the past. By playing this simple game so much, I have realized that tetris can be split up into three separate categories.

1. Playing tetris because of boredom:

Tetris is such a simple game that anyone can just sit down at a computer, Google a free version of it and start playing it right away. The game is absolutely perfect for the common case of boredom. If you are ever sitting at your computer, have already read through all the facebook statuses, checked your email, and maybe played a game of solitaire or two, tetris will definitely help with the same old computer, boredom routine. The game not only stimulates your brain, but can also be quite a challenge once the levels and speed of the pieces both increase.

2. Tetris Addiction:

Tetris addiction is a very serious illness. I have to say that I am definitely addicted to Tetris. Pretty soon I will probably have to start going to TAA(Tetris addicts anonymous) or something. The way to develop this addiction is by playing for at least an hour every day for a least two and a half weeks...give or take. The symptoms are very clear. You will feel as though you need to play tetris all the time because you know you can do better than the last time, and you will not get as much work done throughout the day because tetris will become your partner in crime when it comes to procrastination. The worst symptom of all, which I unfortunately suffer from, is tetris in the brain. Whenever I close my eyes or have a minute to think to myself, my mind goes into autopilot and starts to plays various games of tetris. The worst part is, I can't tell if it amuses me or annoys me.

3. Tetris=Life

Life can very easily be related to a simple game of tetris. Just think about it this way, the blank screen before the game starts is a baby entering the world with a clean slate. As pieces, or events in someone's life, fall down into the blank rectangle, or occur in one's life, it is up to that person to try and figure out how to deal with certain events in order to move on and grown up in their life, or go up to the next level. As a person gets older, they usually have more to deal with since they proved to themselves in earlier levels, or years of his or her life that they can handle certain events. Once that happens, the pieces start falling down faster and faster until eventually there is a piece that will not fit anywhere. The tricky part is that the person has to try and figure out how they will handle all of the other fast moving situations as well as the misfit piece in order to bring balance back into his or her life again. Once that happens, the levels increase, and life gets harder until finally...game over. So there you go. Tetris=Life.