RULE NUMBER FOUR: THE LONGEST WAY TO THE SHORTEST DISTANCE

sometimes in a game you'll see where you need to get, you get a glimpse of it, or see it through a window, know it's behind a door, etc but something will obstruct your path. then you're gonna have to go around basically the entire maze to get back to that point. this is always annoying. because it is a cock tease. you basically have to put what you saw in the back of your mind in order to proceed with the arduous journey ahead. i think the game designers do it to be cruel, to be clever. maybe to inspire you as you set out on a killing rampage. 

THIS IS JUST LIKE LIFE:

sometimes we get a sense of who we want to be with, where we want to be in our lives, and for some reason that incarnation of ourselves feels like it's as close at hand as tomorrow. and yet tomorrow never comes and we're still the same schlubs with the same lame jobs and the same lame girls. so then we have this dream, like someday i'll be skinny, someday i'll be famous, someday i'll be floor manager etc. maybe you even used to be skinny or awesome or whatever and that was your glimpse, regardless, it's not now. now you are what you are. you want to time travel back to your better you or ahead to it, but you can't and everyday it feels like it's the same distance away from you. meanwhile, your life is being eaten up by time. 

i think you really do have to put it in the back of your head and focus on the mission at hand. it's cruel that we have a dream or an ideal when it comes to ourselves, sometimes it can keep us from becoming anything. the trick is to battle it, focus on the monster in front of you and slice it's head off . do it ad nauseum until one day you look a at your life and you do have that better job, that better body, that end after the means. you can't be too discouraged by wishing you you're something you're not. if you really want it though you have to forge onward into the maze. so work out, don't settle, do the little things that move you forward on your path. soon enough you'll see that point you passed oh so long ago.