Conner Quigley
Grand
Theft Auto Lessons for life
Every road has some carnage, every character has a story
behind them, and you are stuck deciding what path you want to take. If any toy
has taught me valuable life lessons it is the computer. More specifically a game
called grand theft auto 3 on that computer did all the teaching. Kids grow up
loving a favorite toy and cherishing it for the rest of their lives like for
example a little toy car. Although for me, a long day on the computer, after
school, kept me cherishing. Without Grand Theft Auto 3 I would have never
learned some important life lessons. My whole life was changed because of this
game. I developed critical life lessons like street Intelligence, life Skills,
individual passions, and ideas as a result.
I look back at my young age and question why my parents
ever even showed me Grand Theft Auto. It is rather enraging to think they ended
up banning me from playing it shortly after. It’s common for kids to relate to
when dad or mom took their favorite toy away because they were being naughty.
In this generation it’s becoming more and more common for the parents to take
away games, cars, or Barbie Dolls because of something they did not like about
the toy. Once I got hooked on GTA I had no chance turning back even when my
parents took it away. I look back and can blame a majority of my computer
knowledge to GTA because of all the temptations. GTA was what many would call a
cheaters game. To really fall in love with the game you had to cheat. This is
where my intelligence grew. In GTA you can hack the cars to go light speed,
give guns unlimited ammo, and make tanks shoot missiles that knock it back a
couple thousand feet. In life you always want to find something your good at
and master that better than anyone else. Hacking is no easy task and learning
how to do that when I was in elementary school was amazing. The computer is most definitely what I have been
born to do and it was an important life lesson to learn young because it
dominates our society so much today. The computer is a dangerous toy and life
almost seems unimaginable without it.
Life Lessons emerge in many forms, one important life
lesson everyone should learn is that in
life you need money making skills. Money drives everything in this country. If
a toy can teach that to a kid when they are young then everyone parent should
be buying that toy. In GTA you learn budgeting, business etiquette, how to set
goals, and what not to do in the real world through various missions. Like goal
setting for example, we all learn at a young age how to go for something you
want. In GTA if you wanted a certain car, you had to save up for it from
working hard missions. You then take that saved money, search for the car, and
drive it home from the dealership. Time demanding but almost all real goals
seem to follow the same suit. Another important life lesson to learn young is
how to stay away from trouble in the real world. In GTA you can go out stealing
any vehicle you see and killing anyone you want with a great chance of getting
away from the cops. When you are young you learn very quickly that just jumping
in someones car and trying to steal it is impossible. Cars don’t start
themselves, cars can’t be driven with 4 different keyboard strokes, People can’t
be thrown out of a car, and cops are more efficient in real life than in a
computer game.
It’s important to develop skills young and it’s also
important to use the skills towards passions you love. If any life lesson every
young kid should learn, it’s to find something that will always make you happy.
Luckily I found a toy that gets re-developed every year, and due to the nature
of that toy I will always get to enjoy it. My passion is gaming, not very many
toys can be played with and lead to a passion. The computer is no normal toy
though, its special, it is always evolving, and adapting each year. Like any
gamer you develop a connection to the game you play the most and it consumes your
entire day sometimes.
Addiction comes in mysterious ways and frequently you
become addicted to your favorite toy for at least a little while. Getting over
bad addictions is an important skill to learn for the rest of your life. What
keeps a kid so addicted to a toy at such a young age is usually his brain
racing with ideas. Ideas are like diseases, one is created, developed, and then
living off a host until it is destroyed. For many young boys, they get caught
always wanting to destroy things, causing mayhem to simply put it. Luckily for
the world this is grown out of quickly, a simple addiction quickly overcome. If
it were not overcome, we might have adults playing target practice against
random bystanders and animals. This is a result of when a kid is playing with a
G.I. Joe and he is going around shooting every commando in his path, destroying
every blockade that tries to stop him. For me my important life lesson idea was
to be respectful to others at all times. Respect holds a certain bar of
understanding, in GTA the whole game is about earning respect of all the
mobsters to get any farther in the ranks of life. This holds true for real life
and is a lesson to be learned by all. Growing up you earn the respect of
teachers, friends, and hopefully even your managers. If someone respects you
they are more likely to do something for you.
In every toy there is a life lesson to be learned. Sometimes
it takes years down to road to completely understand the lesson was. Childhood
toys hold a lot of value in regards to what can be learned from each.
Intelligence, skills, passions, and ideas are important to making it anywhere
in this world. Like the computer, some toys are very complicated, they never
get old. Then in comparison Barbie dolls die off with age of the person. It’s
crazy how toys can define us like how grand theft auto helped define me. It’s
all part of growing up and developing life’s lessons.
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