Some times all the wonder and mystery seems to be out of life. You know you are going to eat too much, you know you are going to watch TV way to long and neglect your responsibilities. You can't help it, you are a bit bored with your life, you want something else but you are not getting it.
You want to see something good on TV but you know you can count on a dubbed, pointless and many times seen before commercial involving something slightly famous but not nice to look at. You can go somewhere by car, but you'll get stuck in traffic and trains are mostly late. Of course going by bike is quite perfect, but it has one big reason not to use it; you'll get tired.
What I'm trying to say with this big lead is that life can get a bit boring and depressing from time to time. We are created and are on this earth, but what is for us to control? We can't control anything ourselves, nothing goes our way (with they exception of speeding traffic, which can go our way, way too fast). We can't control anything, seriously. Even our own minds are out of control, if you order yourself not to think about polar bears, that will be the first thing you'll think about. If you want to stop violence, you will have to keep the violence-doers from violating by hitting them violently, that's the only thing they'll listen to.
There's nothing to control, not about yourself, let alone others. There's not much a human can do, they can only dream about most things. But dream, they can. They can imagine. Well, it's not much, but if you can do nothing else... all you can do is imagine... well... WAIT A MINUTE! You can imagine that you can do a lot of things! Just as presidents are doing! You can imagine being able to create characters and let them live, within your mind! That's really cool! You can do it together with a DM and everything, just be creative and let your fantasy go! It's great. Just role-play together! Just imagine and create in your mind! That's, that's, well... almost as good as TV! Well, that's role-playing; it's about being creative. Coming together with a group of friends and seeing the light in their eye's if they make up something (but mostly when they're about to make a very stupid and pointless joke). And they always go all out, use every possibility they get, driving the DM crazy who tries to keep it together.
They use every imaginary situation to show what their character has got. To make all possible stupid jokes? To prove themselves among their friends? To give their character, their child of imagination, their creation which they love and in which they all secretly find the most true version of themselves, the best life he can have because of their deep emotional bond? We all know those are not true. It is about the experience-points, obviously.
And later on you get back in your normal life. You get home.
"How did it go tonight?"
"Some got killed."
"Ah... how nice."
Your family is used to this kind of conversation. And then, you're back in normal life. Life where you have to be more careful because dying is for real and people don't assume you play it when you show your real self.
It's no wonder you want to get out and role-play every once and a while. And after all, it's a perfect way to attack your friend without any risk of getting hurt (without the small exception of dices thrown in your eye).

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