WHAT IF YOUR LIFE WAS A VIDEO-GAME?

SUNDAY, MAY 30 2004 @ 03:20 PM

Have you ever wanted to give your life a spin that could change your destiny? Do you ever wonder what would have happened if you decided to follow a different career path? What if you could "save your game" right now, and you were given the opportunity of following your heart elsewhere, what would you do?

I'm using the video-game metaphor to establish a sense of security: after saving your game, you can risk everything and always be able come back and try a different approach if anything goes wrong. Also, I'm not implying that you are not happy with the life you live, just that there are things you would have liked to do, but didn't because it was too risky or implied sacrificing your life's relative stability.

For example, I used to sing for a rock band, back in Peru during my college years. My friends and I started getting together to make some noise, while the other guys were plugged to video-games. During the last of those four unforgettable years, we got to play with some big bands and were almost semi-famous... until we had to let the rockers life go, each one for different personal reasons. Only one of my friends is still with a band, and he's doing pretty well. As for me, I still try to find some time to play my guitar and sing, at home; however, sometimes I entertain the idea of taking a break from everything, and go work on my next album ;)

So, everybody has secret talents and desires, what are yours?

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JESTERXL

MAY 30 2004 @ 04:04 PM

Join the Air Force.

STACEY

MAY 30 2004 @ 04:07 PM

I'd write a somewhat questionable advice column. Or do music reviews. Music is a first love along with writing. So I've always wanted to do that - turn other people on to new stuff. As for the questionable advice column- it would have to have a bit of smut/questionable content. I'm at my best when I am allowed to make poltically incorrect or shocking statements.

CESAR TARDAGUILA

MAY 30 2004 @ 04:29 PM

That's funny Stacey, because that's exactly what I've always wanted to do too.

I'd love to quit programming and start reviewing music, and leave my country and move from one place another just when I get bored. If I only could do it....

CARLOS ROVIRA

MAY 30 2004 @ 05:22 PM

Hey Oscar!, I'll find a lot of common points, I'll play in a band in the university days called 'Terra Incognita' and one of my guitars is similar to yours, an Ovation Celebrity Deluxe (see it at http://www.ovationguitars.com/index.cfm?fa=detail&mid=2, but the imagine it with a natural finish), the other one is a Ibanez Jem 777BFP (on of the Steve Vai series).

I used to spend 8, 10, 12...hours a day playing. When you love playing guitar is the same thing as love play with Flash ;)... there's a period in your life that guitar is most important thing in the world.

KEMMOTAR

MAY 30 2004 @ 06:14 PM

Well, certainly life has his good and bad moments but i belive we must think "what's the next i'm going to do?" rather than "what if .....?". This way we have no regrets of the things we do and try to be better every day. We all have stuff we wanted to do but for one reason or another we left it and never completed, well that's part of live to and maybe someday we complete this things and mark a point in our existance. "Be Cool and Relax"

OSCAR TRELLES

MAY 30 2004 @ 07:46 PM

You're right Jorge, but you totally missed the point :) It's not about regrets, but stuff we would like to do without messing with what we've got to this point.

Carlos, I can relate to what you say. Although I only used guitars to play my own songs, we used to spend entire weekends at one the guitarist's home, annoying his family with all our noise :)

EMMANUEL OKYERE

MAY 30 2004 @ 07:59 PM

Oscar, you are right on the money. As a kid it was tennis... gave that up in the mid teens for basketball and chess... somewhere in the background, computers always had a place and moved fully to displace everything else along the line... nowadays, i find myself thinking more about bar tending; i've always been fascinated about it, and it's been etching its way into the foreground even more lately... i told a couple of friends, and they thought I was crazy... somewhere down the line, regardless of how my software dev career continues to grow, I know i'll be bar-tending weekends (even if not cosistently) somewhere decent :)

EMMANUEL OKYERE

MAY 30 2004 @ 08:02 PM

[quote]there's a period in your life that guitar is most important thing in the world[/quote]

yup. if only i could go back and take all the music and language lessons i feigned ill on, and eventually discarded :(

OSCAR TRELLES

JUNE 7 2004 @ 06:33 PM

I like cooking and creating drinks, too. As a matter of fact, I worked the bar in a restaurant during a summer a few years ago, and I enjoyed it a lot. However, I don't think I would do it again, though I like to prepare my drink every once and then.