Starfire11 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:39 pm
Best birthday gift you have gotten?
The gift I have has the most anticipation for getting that I received a birthday present has to be a copy of Viva Piñata! I got the game on a demo disk that came with my Xbox 360, and I must have played the demo at least twenty times before I finally got the full game for my birthday! In fact, I loved that game to bits so much the disk got a crack it after much use! >.> … XD!
The game is just so mystical, original, spontaneous and zany. I think it helped shape me as a person, the secular parts at least. There are also lots of details I later realized are references to earlier Rare titles such as Banjo-Kazooie, which is also a game I like a lot!
Though I have many great memories of playing that game, going back and playing it again just doesn’t feel the same as back then. I start playing it and then put it down for something else. It goes to show that people’s tastes change, despite nostalgia. All things on this earth are temporary, and all of the hard work everyone puts into building beautiful things will one day be forgotten- a cycle that started at the beginning and will go until the end, as the wise writer of Ecclesiastes wrote in Chapter 1 verse 11:
“We don’t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.“ (NLT)
But I believe it’s not all for nothing to enjoy these material gifts. After all, in the same book it insists several times:
“So I recommend having fun, because there is nothing better for people in this world than to eat, drink, and enjoy life. That way they will experience some happiness along with all the hard work God gives them under the sun.” (8:15 NLT)
Wow, I did not expect to go into such a tangent, but I suppose it’s God’s gift for me to make spiritual connections to secular things!