It's Zen calls to me!

I'm not entirely sure what the reason is, but this weekend I bought the game and decided to play for a while. A while turned into many hours, and I found that it's been an incredibly pleasant way to spend a few hours on the weekend. I found that, quite unexpectedly, whilst I built towers or bridges of Goo, I was entering an almost meditative state.

It's one of those lovely, unexpected bonuses of gaming. Occasionally you'll run across them. In my case, I found that the type of thinking required for Goo keeps those difficult to quiet parts of my brain occupied, whilst the rest can simply <em>be</em>. Think sitting in the park, feeding bird seed to ducks, and the way your mind can go so quiet, that you're not thinking anything, save the repeated motion of pulling out handfuls of seed and scattering them about.

It's actually a great way to free up the higher thinking parts of your mind for other tasks, but if you've no need for that right now, simply sitting back and going into that trance like state can be incredibly rejuvenating.

We run around being stimulated all the time in our daily lives, we're always surrounded by technology and people, and the noise created by both, and it can fast become a subtle pressure, a slowly building tension that a quiet bath can do wonders for.

So if you haven't gotten the message yet, I strongly recommend you buy this game! You don't even have to go anywhere, you download it right to your computer. Ahh, what a lovely function! Especially with independent games, as that way their getting the entirety of their profits and not having to lose a percentage to a store. There's so many ways we can, and should, relax each day, this is a new one to me and I hope you try it too!

I remain, calmly building

Morgan D