Have you ever been lost at a certain moment? Maybe it’s after a busy day at work, maybe it’s loneliness at night, or some unspeakable sense of emptiness. When the temptation of the virtual world reaches out to you, you may hesitate for a moment, but grab it without hesitation. Just like the way we often choose in life, escape is not the most terrible thing. The most terrible thing is that we don’t realize what we are escaping at all. The first recharge reset event in “Honkai Impact 3: Sky Railway” is precisely the embodiment of this escape. It uses the bait of rewards to arouse our endless desires.
Recharge reset and the absurdity of human nature
Every recharge reset seems to remind you that the meaning of life is no longer a simple goal, but an endless cycle. You think you are just recharging for better rewards, but when you start to look back, you find that this is just an increasing trap that deeply traps you. Recharge again and again, rewards again and again, it seems that you can never satisfy the emptiness in your heart. You once thought that the items in the virtual world could fill your life, but the satisfaction brought by these digital items can never fill the void in your heart.
We live so realistically, but we can never get real rewards from life. It is not until we fall into the endless virtual world that we begin to look for that glimmer of warmth. But in fact, the prizes in the virtual world do not mean anything. They are just a projection of the absurdity of reality and a reflection of your anxiety and confusion in life. Your enriched account may be just an unwilling compromise, trying to escape deeper pain and powerlessness.
Satisfaction and self-deception in escape
The satisfaction of the virtual world comes from “recharge rewards”. This instant feedback makes people intoxicated, as if they can get satisfaction through simple investment. You recharge once and again, thinking that this may bring you one step closer to the life you want. You urgently believe that with each recharge, you can get more powerful power and finally get rid of the reality that makes you suffer. But every reward still cannot make you feel truly satisfied, but instead makes you fall into deeper confusion.
You don’t know why you are so obsessed with these virtual items. You don’t realize that the truth of life slips away quietly while you pursue these short-lived prizes. Every time the recharge is reset, it seems to tell you that the virtual world is more worth investing in than the real world, and you will eventually find that what you pursue is never what you really need. Just like many frustrations and difficulties in our lives, although we get some rewards in the game, we still can’t solve the pain and loss in our hearts.
There is always an invisible sense of alienation between you and me. In the virtual world, the prizes become simple and the rewards become direct, while in the real world, every effort and effort we make often does not get the expected rewards. You think you have found a way to escape from pain, but in fact you are just trapped in a deeper cycle. Every time the recharge is reset, it is a deeper escape from reality, and you are guided to repeat your dilemma in this game.
The phantom of pursuit and the loss of reality
When you chase every virtual reward, you may ignore your real needs. Have you ever asked yourself why you are always chasing those empty things? Why do you always look for comfort in the empty world? You might say, “This is a game, and only by depositing money can you get better rewards.” However, if you look deeper, you will find that this is nothing more than the eternal pursuit of mankind – chasing more and more, until you eventually lose yourself.
Look, what can all these rewards give you? Is it a more powerful character or more gold coins? What can you do with these things? In the virtual world, all efforts can be rewarded immediately, but in reality, you don’t know whether you can get any rewards. You have devoted time and energy to the virtual characters in the game, but you can’t solve the real problems in life. You invest in this game again and again until you realize that all these rewards are not the real goal.
You begin to reflect: What if you use this time and energy in life? If you can change the deposit in the game to an investment in the real world, will there be different rewards? Every reset may be a hint to yourself, telling you: You are lost and have entered an endless cycle. The rewards in the virtual world cannot heal your pain in life, nor can they change your inner powerlessness. You keep working hard in this cycle, but you still can’t find your true destination.
It’s time to return to reality
In the virtual world, the stored value rewards are constantly reset. You think this is a progress, but it’s just a repetitive process. The real progress, the real change, is that you can find a balance between virtual and reality. While chasing virtual rewards, you should probably think about what you really need in reality? Behind every stored value is an escape from real life, and what can you get from it? Have you ever thought that the real satisfaction is not the reward in the virtual world, but the accumulation of every effort in life?
The temptation of the virtual world is only short-lived after all, but the meaning of life requires us to work hard and persist again and again. Between virtual and reality, we have to face ourselves after all: how do we get out of trouble in the real world and how do we move towards our own tomorrow. Every reset reward may just let you see the glory of the virtual world, but it can’t illuminate the road in reality for you.
On this road, you need more than just virtual satisfaction, but more real pursuit and unyielding efforts. No matter how the stored value in the game is reset, the meaning of life still belongs to you. Finding the real self is the reward you need in the end.