text: I always thought my life had no meaning. It's as if I was born with no true purpose. No 'helping as many people as I can', or 'make the world a better place'... Nothing. I never had a calling of sorts that attracted and mesmerized someone towards some thing or action. Then one day, as I was coming back home from school, I decided to take a new and unexplored route home. It minimizes the time taken to reach my house by half as compared to the ordinary route. I never took that route before cause Mommy told me that it's really unsafe and dangerous cause it's where 'Monsters have taken shelter after coming out of Hell'. It always scared me very much when I was small but now, I was 15 year old big boy.. I was not getting fooled by some cooked up Monster story.. Everybody knows Monsters are not real.. Also, I thought I was strong enough to kick one or two Monster's butt.. I mean I was a Champion in doing just that on Monster Hunter, so, I can do that in reality too. Still I was a bit scared, but I started walking on that route anyway.. The path was very gloomy at first; dense trees on both sides really blocked majority of the sunlight.. It seemed I was walking through a tunnel after a point... It just got so dark.. Maybe the sun starting to set didn't help much with the light either. Anyways, with such low light and weirdly stagnant surrounding, I started getting a bit tensed up and scared. But I didn't wanna cry and shout 'Mommy, Mommy' like a weak, little kid.. I was 15 now, I was a big boy. So, I mustered up all my courage and started walking a bit faster, trying to find some sort of exit. An hour passed.... Is what I thought at that time while I was practically running to maybe find a glimpse of life, preferably my Mom. But all I saw was darkness, in varying forms of concentration... Sometimes as thick as jelly and sometimes as light as a cloud.. Maybe if I had just calmed down and taken three deep breaths, then, I would have been just fine.. But I started remembering my Mother's warnings and how the Monsters were killers, who just pounded you with their big hammers until you died, laughing while they did it. It was at this moment when I lost it... I began running frantically in zigzags, my eyes filled to the brim with tears, shouting and shrieking 'Mommy, Mommy' at the top of my voice. It felt like the Monsters hidden in the darkness are trying to catch me, so I ran harder trying to find any sort of light. After running for what seemed like ages, I finally found an exit... A portal of light. I was so happy.. Never thought that I would be happy seeing light, but I was... So I ran a bit more... Pushing my failing legs to enter into the portal of illumination. I couldn't stand darkness anymore... Its density was suffocating. So, I gave it my all, physically and mentally and successfully entered into the portal.. At first, all I saw was light.. Blinding, protruding light.. Light so severe that it burns your eyes no matter how tightly you close it.. It seemed like both the forces were out to get me... Like Monsters trying to snatch their prey from one another.. As I walked forward, the light started to lose its intensity and gradually, I could see building like structures.. Little by little, I could make out roads, trees, houses and most importantly people.. Oh! It felt so good seeing humans, that too, kids like me, playing jovially.. As the light faded completely, I saw the place in its entirety and I rubbed my eyes in amazement and delight. It was exactly identical to the town Warhammer in Monster Hunter, my favorite game. The same buildings, the same roadsigns, the same well at the middle of the road with wooden sign, ' Welcome to Warhammer, where Hammers do the talking'. The kids, who I saw playing cheerfully, were actually hammering and hunting down the monsters to complete one level after another, just like in the game itself. It was like a virtual reality game, where everything was so real that your senses get deceived. I couldn't stay away from all of this for long; after all, it was my favorite game. So, just like in the game itself, I picked up a hammer from the hammer shop, located at the center of the town and started whacking one monster after another. It was not entirely identical to the game... I mean, the graphics were much more advanced, with the blood and bones looking much sharper and refined, the Monsters looking very much real with their movements and screams. For some reason, the Monsters looked much more humane than what they looked in the game. All of this added to the game playing experience and I just couldn't stop playing.. Playing this game gave me that purpose which I searched for so long.. It's as if I was born to play this game; as if it was my calling.. Moreover, this VR game is funnier in comparison to the desktop version... Like, when I run after the Monsters to smash them, they run screaming 'Monster!! Monster is coming! Run! 'It's so funny... The Monsters calling me a monster.. It's hilarious.. It's because of these well written dialogues that I cannot stop laughing while playing it and smashing those idiots... I don't know why Mommy would scare me and forbid me from taking this path.. Maybe because she thought I would get addicted to this game and enjoy it too much and continue playing for hours.. Well, she is not wrong..hehe.. I love this place and I have no intention of going back anytime soon... Let's look at how many more Monsters do I have smash to clear this level... The Monster board says, 7.6 billion... Wow, that's so many monsters.. I can't even count the number of zeroes that number has... Wait, One, two, three, four, five.... Forget it, I'll figure it out later.. Now, I have to smash some more Monsters and get home soon or I'll get smashed myself hehe.. Now, where do I start? There... Let's start from there.. Hey, that Monster kinda resembles my mom...