Mario

Many of us have played a game in the Nintendo series "Mario" at one point or another. To explain those who haven't played it, A giant takling turtle kidnaps a princess and you control Mario, an italian plumber, and have him run through a bunch of levels and castles until he gets to Bowser (the giant turtle) and defeats him to rescue the princess. But while playing this game recently, I realized something. I began to feel sorry for Bowser. If you examine the backstory closely enough, all he's trying to do is make the girl he's in love with happy. He offers her everything he has if she would just stay with him and be happy, but she doesn't listen to him. She won't even give him a chance. She makes him an enemy of the kingdom before he even does anything wrong so he does something drastic. He "kidnaps" her and takes her to his castle. In our society, that would be like kidnapping someone that filed a restraining order against you because you were born. After she's in his clutches and takes her back to his kingdom where people don't try to kill him for showing his face and where does he let her stay? In the dungeon? No. He gives her a huge room with a fancy, comfortable and expensive bed, her own personal bathroom, a ridiculous-sized closet that would make anyone who buys clothes for fun squeel with joy, and she doesn't even appreciate it. She just keeps criticizing everything he does with no moral support whatsoever. And finally when he has the slightest chance to talk in her presence when she might actually listen, some random guy that calls himself Mario shows up, beats the crap out him, and takes his girl away. That's like if you were trying to talk to a girl you liked and some guy runs in, punches you in the face, then takes the girl back to his place. In short, every time you play Mario you're supporting society's idea that the good-looking people should reproduce and the people with high intelligence should die alone. Although, I guess Bowser wasn't so smart when he tries it again and again without making the path to get to him more difficult so I guess high-intelligence wouldn't be lonely, just the ones that are nice and actually care about how other people feel. And to top it all off. I'm not sure why Mario even bothers rescuing her because if he just waited long enough, Bowser would finally have a conversation with Princess Peach and realize she's a selfish person that doesn't care about anyone else and let her go.It would probably be an even quicker process if she weren't such a jerk and actually had a decent conversation with him. This does teach us something though. If you don't want to spend time around someone, just be blunt about it and tell them that instead of being an all-around unpleasant person because then they will know you mean it and it's not just how you are. Think about that the next time you decide to play Mario.