The oasis

The oasis 

Reality it's the only thing that is real - James  Halliday

I guess from the title, you might think that I wanted to write about oasis on smartbch, but it's not it if you are family with the above state, then you will know the movie they said those words if you don't know it, don't worry much, you will understand it as I proceed with the article.

The name of the movie is “Ready player one” it's not actually a new movie though, if you haven't watched it, I will recommend you watch it because it jas a lot of lessons, especially now that Mark Zuckerberg it's about to launch metaverse, in the movie, a man created the oasis (a visual reality) you can go anywhere without going nowhere, it was his greatest invention and everyone loves to visit the oasis to the extent that, they no longer care about the real world, in the oasis, you can earn coins and buy a lot of cool stuff, you can get married in the oasis and still won't know the person you are married to in reality.

It got to the part that the man that invented the oasis died, he had no kids and no wife because he's an introvert, he thinks that there is no place for him in reality, that's why he created the oasis in the first place, so he can spend most of his time there when he died, he dropped a message through his avatar that he has left an easter egg, to get to it you must find three keys which he has placed in the oasis, it took a lot of time before they could discover where to find the first key, to win the first key, too have to race to the finish line, which they started doing, there was this boy (the main character in the movie) name parzival (that's actually his avatar name in the oasis) he got the first key by studying the Halliday Journal, a company name IOI wants to take over the oasis, so they created an army in the visual world to look for the keys by any means necessary, to cut the story short, Parzival met a girl in the oasis name Optimus (her avatar name) we teamed up with three other avatars to bring down IOI operations, I think I will stop here. 

The movie has a lot of lessons. Especially now that mark it's about to introduce a new invention, a lot of people won't care about reality anymore and they will be too busy living in the metaverse, some of us now prefer visual life (social media life) to reality, because we find more comfort in a visual world, there's no one to bully us or do any wrong thing to us and we are free to do as we please, nobody can say this or that, one thing we should know about this visual world is that this isn't real, reality its the only place you can have a decent meal, lol, well, reality is the only real place to be, I remember when Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp were down, the world was shaken because most of us only live in the visual world. Especially someone like me that always got clients online, I felt it, now imagine if the Internet decided to shut down for a day, can you survive a day without the internet, even I don't have an answer for this because I won't be happy the whole day until the internet it's restored. 

Conclusion 

We can't hide in the visual world forever, because reality will be waiting for us and we can't skip it, even if we ran away, we will still have to face reality face off, living in the visual world its good, but we should not forget about reality. 

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20/11/2021