Life as a Flappy Bird

            Over the past weeks, I had seen a handful of people playing a game called Flappy Bird. Whether they are in the mall with their friends, in school canteen or even inside the classroom during the lecture, smart phone users tap their fingers through the screen. Intrigued, I tried once playing this game and I scored only one or two. So what’s make this game the talk of the town?

            The goal of the game was to navigate the bird through the green pipes by tapping your smart phone to keep the bird afloat. Quite easy, huh? Your fingers must be fast enough and the user must have a good control/reflexes or else the bird would hit a green pipe and game over. In other words, the game is challenging. I could really heard “Arrggh” moments from frustrated gamers who hit a green pipe. Gamers love the game and at the same time, hate it. I just hope that gamers would not throw their smart phones away if they got frustrated. It's a test of patience, indeed.

         

What Flappy Bird teaches us or what Flappy Bird reflects life? It’s simple, move forward. Green pipes are like challenges; they come in different lengths and different situations, sometimes with a twist. The only thing that someone can do to win against challenges is to move and fly forward through these challenges. There’s no such thing in life as a pause or stop button like the game. You can't take a stop everything even time itself. Everything needs to move forward whether you like it or not. You cannot even move backward and go back to the past. Also, there is no fast forward in life because everything needs to take one step and one pipe at a time. You cannot expect a child to become an adult and think like one in just one day; it needs time to become mature to learn. It’s called development. However, while moving forward, don’t fly too high for you might hit a green pipe that would put you down right away nor don’t fly too low because again, you might hit a green pipe would put you on the ground. Don’t make yourself too high nor don’t put yourself too low. Just keep yourself through the times. If you happen to be thrown out by challenges, there’s always a starting line where you can start over to redeem yourself. And along the way, enjoy life.