The designer is a very peculiar animal that lives his entire life almost entirely detached from what the rest of the world calls reality. Simultaneously he despises and respects everything that is old and by “old” he defines everything he knows. In his constant search for novelty he feeds on everybody else’s dreams and ideas, hoping that by piecing them together he can create “the new”. Sadly, once acquainted with “the new”, the designer will most likely refuse to recognize it as such since it is now known to him and thus part of “the old”.
Gifted by nature, the designer, if kept in his natural habitat, can live forever. Unfortunately there are only a few recorded such case as most of them choose death out of simple curiosity and hunger for “the new”. As soon as they die they immediately reincarnate into non-designers and find true happiness. This is because the non-designers are terrified by “the new” and seek shelter and comfort in “the old”. Since the last one can be found in large quantities all around us, the non-designers live a long, prosperous and uneventful life.
This was a happy story.
The End
P.S. The heat in Bucharest might have had an impact on the above post…
Tags: curiosity, game designer, happy story, non-designer, self irony, the new, the old