Perhaps when writing a blog, a person can focus on a certain niche or subject and write a lot about that, which is probably helpful for the blogger as well as those who can read multiple articles on the same subject. The other way a blog can be done is with the focus on the person themselves. I think if the said blogger themselves is interesting or already famous, then really anything they do can be interesting. But I think that kind of person is very rare and I certainly am not that person. Thus, I feel a sort of need to steer everything back to theology or the Bible somehow. I’m not sure if that will happen this time or not since I want to talk about…Pikmin~
I knew about Pikmin for a long time but my past birthday I received Pikmin 4 and seriously played it for the first time. And what I learned is that the game, aside from beautiful ascetics and cute creatures, is mainly about multitasking and management. How can a person be as efficient as possible. And what that involves is sending the right pikmin to the right job. You don’t send the pikmin to break down a wall and just watch. You send a large number to the wall and in the meantime you collect other materials and send other pikmin to fight some other creature. It reminds me of working in a coffee shop. During the opening hours, there was always a rush of customers. And if you are brewing coffee or getting espresso out, you don’t stand and watch, you try and move cups or cut a bagel or put more beans into the grinder….
When everything goes smoothly this can be quite addicting. But also, expediency can destroy some good and beautiful things. As for pikmin, the places are beautiful, but one is never really allowed to just stop and admire the scenery. Nature becomes just a backdrop to the hustle and bustle. So there is a goodness to efficient management, but taken to an extreme, we lose sight of some more important things in life.
Tying things to the church, good management and being efficient is a good thing. But, the temptation might be to do more and more and more and more….and while we can say that we are “accomplishing great things”, unless one completely stops and does nothing, one can really never know God. We are made to work, but made for more than work. We are also to enjoy and cherish God and the people and good things that there are. Of course, the solution isn’t “bad management” which only causes frustration. I think good management in moderation. To delegate and work together, but to also resist the temptation to push more and more…to go faster and faster. I think because of the reality of God, we become free to actually stop. But also because of the reality of God, we do have goals to work forward to. I guess to work with these two thing in mind, which means a life of adjusting and readjusting. But the reality of God helps us to enjoy the most out of both parts of life. Both the going and the stopping.
Quinby 