"Death's Game" Let's talk about it...
One of the most anticipated drama's of 2023 finally aired. In just 8 episodes it left one of the strongest impacts on me that I have ever felt while watching a drama like this, so let's talk about it...
Trigger Warning: talks of death/suicide
I know there's been plenty of reviews out there on this show, but I too have a lot to say about it, and I encourage other's to talk about it and to not stop. Why? Because of suicide. You can argue that this is just a show on the butterfly effect, or how our choices have consequeces(which they do), but this is one of the best suicide prevention shows I have ever seen. This show not only shows how our actions have consequences, but it really showcased a true ripple effect on what happens when one chooses to kill themselves.
Of course, nobody knows what happens when we die. Many claim to know, many claim to just not care, some believe we get reincarnated or believe nothing happens...well in this show there was 1 suicide and 12 reincarnations and they all were tied together by a thread. How the actions of 1 man had an effect on many others, and I'm not talking about the man who ran into the road and got himself killed. I'm talking about Yi Jae, our 'victim'.
Yi Jae is no victim, he is simply just a selfish being who decided to end his life because of the pain and just how he succumbed to those demons in his head. It's truly sad when one chooses to take their own life. Again, it's a choice. Nobody forced him to jump off that roof, and the man who ran into the road in very beginning did not make him either. He jumped off the roof himself and that was his choice. This whole time, Death is trying to get him to realize this. This whole thing is about choices, and the choices we make and the consequences they have.
And that we should value life. When times are tough and there seems to be no way out, death is never the answer. Go and look for an opportunity to make things better. Go seek help, there are so many recourses out there to help with our mental stability and minds. We try, and we fail, but we live another day.
One of the best takeaways of this drama was about how we are given this life and just how precious life is. Choices and opportunities go hand in hand to living a better life. If you were offered a lump sum of $10,000 only one time, how would you spend the money? Would you use it to invest in something and try to grow that $10,000? Would you pay off a debt? Or would you go buy some new clothes, a new tv...? What choice would be the best choice to better your life and reach a goal? Or what would you do if witnessed someone being robbed on the side of the road? You would call the police and try to help, right?
Or what if you had a really big interview to attend, that could change the course of your whole career, but you witnessed someone getting hit by a car, and he gripped onto your shirt asking for help, like Yi Jae?
You can blame the man getting hit by the car all you want, but in the end it was Yi Jae's choices and his own doing for what happened. Yi Jae could have chosen to inform them with what he witnessed and what happened and asked to reschedule, or he could have simply supress his thoughts until the interview was over and get some therapy after. We all have different reactions to trauma and he was traumatized, but he let his fear and his anxiety take complete control. He stared death right in the face and he truly succumbed to it. He let this control him when he didn't even try to help himself. He had choices from the very beginning.
Blaming the man who died that day for how his life was turning out was not his reason his life sucked. He was actively doing things to better it, but he just gave up. And that is what Death was teaching him. He mocked death and blamed everyone else but himself. He acted out and other's around him got hurt in the process. Killing himself didn't end his pain, it only heightened it. He just pushed his pain onto other's around him.
It took him 12 extra death's to realize that his choices have consequences. That everything he does was on him and himself only, and just how precious life is. You don't have to be the richest person out there, but the fact that we are alive and here now, we should be grateful. He had choices and it's not like he was some child born into slavery or thrown in a basement to get rid of. God has mercy on those who are born without a choice on who their parents are or what they do to them(he was showed this early on, a baby without a choice). But Yi Jae was loved and taken care of so well and he threw it all away and that's what Death game was all about.
You want to mess around with death, just fuck around and find out.
Appreciate what you have. You might not have the best job, or the biggest house...but love the life you're given, even if you're suffering just Keep going and don't give up. You were born to be loved. Take the risks and opportunities, and go out and go after what you want in life. Opportunities come to everyone, it's up to us to see them and take them.
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