I am officially addicted to Bejeweled Blitz again. It's a facebook game my mom introduced me to over Christmas break. I intentionally never downloaded it onto my page because I knew I'd get addicted. Instead, I was forced to play on hers meaning I needed her to log me in. Yes, my mother was my enabler. Over spring break, I discovered her password and no longer needed her assistance to Blitz. However, I still had some self-control since it wasn't on my page. As soon as the semester was over, I downloaded the stupid game to my page and have been playing daily since.
If you're not familiar with this addicting game, an 8 by 8 box fills with jewels. You've got a minute to flip them around one at a time to make lines of three jewels that are the same color. Once three of the same color are together, they disappear. If you get four, three disappear and the fourth turns into a flaming jewel. Line the flaming jewel up with two more and all of the surrounding jewels explode. There are other features, too, but I want to focus on the flaming jewel.
Since you've only got a minute, I'm always planning a few moves ahead of where I'm flipping. Sometimes that means a flaming jewel appears and my moves disappear before I get there. Of course, you get points for this in the game, but sometimes it's annoying. Sometimes there are so many explosions you kind of sit there staring at the screen like, "When is it my turn to play?"
As I'm wasting hours one minute at a time I'm thinking about life. A year from now I'll graduate college and I have no idea what I'm doing next. That terrifies me. Three years of college down and I still don't know what I want to do with the rest of my life. Ok, well, I want to write, but what's the career path for that? I haven't figured that out yet. Right now I don't even know if I'm going to grad school (where? to study what?) or going right into the workforce (in this economy? doing what?). I'm not tied to any part of the country but there are two states I call home. I don't have any idea what I'm doing after I graduate, but as this year progresses I'll make plans for my future. I'm a planner; this is what I do.
Maybe, like the jewels, my plans will explode and something else will replace them. A lot of times, when the jewels change, better moves appear. As my plans explode and change, maybe better opportunities will surface.
I hate all of these unknowns and unexpected changes. However, I realize I am not alone. There's a whole facebook support group for those of us facing Blitz addictions. And there's countless college students pensive about their futures.
I think Nikki said it best a few weeks ago when she said, "I'd just love for God to send me my MASH in the mail and be done with it." Unfortunately, that letter hasn't come yet, so here I am still pondering and wondering as I flip jewels around and waste my life one minute at a time.
More so than normal, this post was written for my own mulling more than it was for anyone else. If you were able to follow it and learned something, wonderful! If not, I'm sorry you wasted your time. Oh, and please don't tell me I have a year to figure out what I'm doing with the rest of my life. I might smack you. Fair warning.
<>< Katie
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