Games I Like
My favorite kinds of games are big on having the player explore beautiful places. Usually they deal with gorgeous, vast lands or castles with hidden cozy areas with the least to zero amount of stress.
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Spacetime
We are creatures that experience time linearly. The universe isn’t so simple, in terms of physics at least. I think of this whenever I discount anything in my past as less real or significant than the present–whenever I’m tempted to “mourn what is gone.”
Sure, it doesn’t change the fact that what’s gone is still gone in my perspective. But it gives me comfort knowing that just because something has passed doesn’t mean it hasn’t existed or “doesn’t exist anymore,” in a way. Just because something is “gone” from my perspective doesn’t mean it was never real. It will have always existed as far as the universe is concerned. The past “still exists” as far as the universe is concerned.
Even if I can’t see it anymore.
At least. Theoretically. Or mathematically. I won’t pretend to understand it completely. Or even sufficiently.
Related concept: growing block universe
Of course, nothing here touches on the idea of “alternate universes” yet. That’s another story.
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Humility
Humility is a trait and practice that I think many can benefit from and are unaware of. The word has often been misconstrued as selling oneself short in my experience.
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Stories I Like
I like stories that focus on relationships in the barest sense. I don’t even necessarily mean romance despite that being the bulk of what I consume. I like the focus of what people are to each other. What someone is to someone else. As opposed to narratives that focus on a grand adventure or saving the world or kingdom or something like that. I like writing where immersive descriptions of scenery are instead used to boost the narrative/character dynamics into a more tangible way.