Life

I found an interesting analysis of Tetris on one of the blogs that I read.

Apart from being a fine game, Tetris is also a perfect mirror of the human condition. For a while the game is entertaining, and we seem to have mastered it and are having fun. Then, something goes wrong — a rash mistake, or an unfulfilled wish, and we’re fighting to repair the damage, but we’ve been thrown off-balance, and everything is piling up. Blocks that were once orderly and harmonious are jumbled and filled with holes, and our cup is on the verge of running over. There’s always a point at which we stop planning for the future, and realize that we don’t have one — all we can do is cling to the present and concentrate, focus our minds on what it’s like to be alive, to play the game, before it’s all over.

You were waiting for a four-by-one block that never came.

Sometimes we resist to the bitter end, moving blocks left and right without thought or care, just to hang on, and sometimes we accept the inevitable and pull the blocks down to us, smiling inwardly at the great joke. The rest is silence.

Am facing some unresolved issues for quite some time now and I can't really explain it in words. All I know is that it feels really strange now, like we're both strangers. I'm sure it'll feel different in person, but without seeing each other in person, it feels rather detached. I don't feel emotionally attached to this person, and it was different compared to 3 years ago where I felt the connection though we didn't meet for nearly 3 months. I am afraid.