An Answer

Have you ever not known what to do? I'm sure everyone has had this problem from time to time. A situation arises, and it is different from anything that you've ever seen. It seems that no matter how you push, or how you pull, you can't find a way to get past it. You're stuck.

You wonder why this had to happen to you, and you wonder why you even bothered trying. It's pretty standard stuff. You see, the world is full of obstacles, and you can't do anything without having something rise up in front of you that can't just go around, or without coming against something that you have to solve. Life is full of puzzles.

There are many video games that require you to solve puzzles, and, in fact, there is a whole genre of them out there for you to try your hand at. Puzzles are actually contained in almost every genre of video game out there though, and they almost all require that you solve them before you move on. So, when you get to them, you try all of the techniques that you know of, and you try your best to solve it. Sometimes though, the puzzle is so difficult that you can't seem to find a solution. You try moving the pieces backwards, you try placing them in randomly, and you even try begging the game to let you by, but it is all to no avail. So...what do you do now?

Do you cast the game aside and go find something that doesn't make you try so hard?

You could do that, but, if you did, you would be bypassing the most simple of solutions. You are playing a game, and there are millions of copies of whatever particular game you are playing available, and a great many of them have already been purchased. That means that you are not the only one that is playing this game.

There are many gamers out there who are playing the same game, and some of them, regardless of your aspirations otherwise, are much better at this kind of thing than you, whether through experience or talent, and, that puzzle, the one that is stopping your progress, and is keeping you from enjoying the rest of your game, has already been solved. All you have to do is look for the answers from someone who has done it before.

It's not cheating to ask for help, and it increases your chances of winning. You see, it's your game, and, if you bought it because you wanted to be stumped, then it's perfectly fine to continue beating your head against the wall, but, if you bought this game because you wanted to play and enjoy it, the answers are out there.

This holds true for the obstacles in our life as well. No one said that you had to beat this yourself, and no one said that you couldn't ask for help. It's your choice. Your situation is not unique, because there are nearly seven billion people living in the world today, and at least one percent of them has been through the same situation that you are going through right now. You can chose to do it by yourself, and to have your own experience, but it's better to use the experiences of someone who has made it through this before. They have fallen in the pitfalls that are on this path, and they have already climbed back out.
Give it a shot. Talk to someone. Enjoy the game instead of spending hours throwing your controller at the wall.

How can we make progress if we start over from the beginning every generation?