[Exotic manly grunts]
One burly man.
One cauldron of water.
One long hammer.
With their powers combined, you have one of the most finicky, rage inducing games of 2017.
However, while most people became distraught over both the physics and controls of this
game, I actually found it oddly therapeutic?
Yeah I know, I know.
That sounds super weird.
But let me explain.
I'm a guy who takes it slow wherever I go.
If I'm outdoors or exploring the worlds of games, I take time to appreciate where
I'm at.
Getting Over It was no different.
While the controls took some getting used to, I found myself really appreciating this
abstract mountain that I set out to climb.
It reminded me of a lot of games like the Worms series where the environments just had
random objects scattered about.
So even if I plummeted off the mountain - which I did…
A LOT - I surprisingly didn't rage too much.
However, it did make me buckle down on a goal though…
The goal to reach the top of this mountain…
And I think that's exactly why I loved this game.
It made me reflect.
This kind of focused thinking can be dangerous…
Let me explain why.
This is the psychological journey of Getting Over It.
Throughout the game you are told messages that are in reference to your successes and
failures.
The game starts by planting the idea "Starting over is harder than starting up".
It's harder because it makes you feel as if whatever you just quote unquote accomplished
was a waste of time.
And this is thrown in your face over and over again.
You'll make it half way up the mountain, and then you'll fall.
You'll be setback so far that it makes you question your own journey and the time you've
spent getting there.
But that's the exact moment all of this becomes dangerous…
Depending on the type of person you are, one of two things happens.
You either give the game the finger and quit out of it, or you buckle down even harder
than before to make up that lost time.
In the second instance, you'll learn from your mistakes and grow from them the next
time you tackle that obstacle.
Seems pretty straightforward, right?
Well let's drop the game now.
Let's take that exact concept and apply it to real life.
This kind of situation hit me really hard because I'm certainly a repeat offender
of it.
Chasing after a dream and success isn't a bad thing at all.
We all want to make it to the top of the mountain so to speak.
We have our ups and our downs and sometimes we give up and throw in the towel.
When we don't though, we might pursue that goal even harder the next time we try again.
Repeatedly we get beat down and inch closer to that dream, but there's dangers in that
lifestyle.
As a YouTuber my first full time year of doing weekly YouTube videos made me an absolute
shell of a person.
I was always focused on what was coming next.
What's the next video going to be on, what's the next biggest thing…
The life I was living became foreign to me because I became so focused on my goal that
I simply forgot to live.
And I'm not the only one.
Think of how many people have been making videos on this same exact topic.
Creators you may look up to who may feel like they have no clue about their own life because
they've always just looked towards that next video.
They were in a funnel and never stopped.
When they did stop, they completely broke down and didn't know what to do.
This happened to me about a year ago and I talked about it in my Home Alone video.
Hearing other people having the same problem really cemented the idea that we can become
too focused on everything and forget about living.
For those of us who have put the time in to scale Getting Over It's crazy mountain,
you may find yourself faced with a similar feeling.
Even though we want what is at the top, do we really even know what we will do once we
get there?
We honestly don't remember the positive aspects of our journey because we became saturated
in the difficult parts of our climb.
Where we were didn't matter because all that mattered was chasing that light.
And that's incredibly lonely…
When we finally reach the top of the mountain in Getting Over It, we can launch into space.
We are so happy that we have blasted off and the only place we can go from here is to the
stars.
But space is dark and dreary…
It's an odd juxtaposition for the mood we are supposed to be feeling.
We're happy we finished everything but we're left alone drifting through the void.
This is exactly why this game was therapeutic for me.
Until I checked back into reality, being a YouTuber was like drifting in space.
I had my eyes on the future and I was nowhere in the present.
So while other people may have grown angry over this game, I sort of had the opposite
reaction.
It was another reality check for me.
A reminder to never become that blinded by success again.
The journey is truly the important part.
We need to live in the moment and make sure we don't become possessed by our ambitions.
We also need to make sure we don't swing around hammers so carelessly…
Just saying.
Getting Over It is so DEEP!
Or I'm just really, really overthinking it...
Uh...
But now that I've dumped that on all of you, I'd of course like to hear your thoughts.
Of course Getting Over It is rage inducing…
But how did the game speak to you?
Was it simply extreme frustration, or was it something more?
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!
By the way, this is literally a concept I had just covered in my book about being a
YouTuber.
I'm pretty excited about the book which is called The YouTuber Journey.
If you've ever thought about trying YouTube out, I hope you find the book enlightening.
It covers everything I wish I knew about the platform when I first started.
The book will be out in a week or two, so stay tuned!
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