Extra Writing#1 : Mr. Moon's English class

Life is Full of Games

 

Game has magical power to lure even the loosest people’s concentration. Many people are addicted to games despite many side effects. Even some KMLA students, who are potential global leaders, get in trouble because of computer games; they receive heavy penalty points and are taken away their precious computers.

Here is a man who fell in love with physics instead of a game. He is from Cheongju, my hometown. He graduated from KSA, Korean Science Academy, when he was only 17 in Korean age. He majored in physics at MIT. He is an admirable hero to students who love science in Cheongju. When I was in fifth grade, I had a chance to see his lecture. Every listener glided eyes in curiosity how he became such a wonderful physicist. I was also eager to learn how to study physics. To my surprise, his study tip was very simple: studying equals playing a game. Many entertaining computer games have some rules of level up and quests. When people are really in to a game, you spend hours to master the quests and when they finally level up, they are above the cloud and fly in the heaven. He adopted this process to study. Plenty of assignments, quizzes, and contests are the quests. People have to crack them up in order to reach higher level; higher level not only means good results but also their intellectual development. If people can apply this rule in everyday lives, they will feel pleasure of learning, challenging themselves, and reaching the goal.

His lecture became a seed planted in my heart, and it taught me how to face difficulty. Every subject I study is a game. I feel happy when I understand something new, but feel frustrated when things get tangled against my will. Many people, including me, are tempted to give up at that frustrating moment. However, that moment is where the addiction comes from; game is attractive because it is hard to win. If a game is so easy to win, who would feel thrill and obstinacy? As the darkness makes the light brighter, obstacles makes the achievement more valuable.

The man became my mentor in my mind since I also dream to become a physicist. I have kept and will keep nurturing the seed. It may encounter storms and drought during the school year at KMLA and my future college. However, I know I can overcome those with my strong ‘addiction’, and I hope I can meet the man as not a student but a physicist in the future.