Farmville Reality

All right, I admit it. I play Farmville. If you are my Facebook friend, you already know this. Lately, I've been playing a bit more than usual. I am off for the summer, and I can't seem to resist planting and growing crops and harvesting XP. Though I would consider myself mildy into the game, I can't help but see Farmville around me. For the past couple of days, the kids and I will be driving and I'll see a picturesque house or tree and my immediate reaction is "Farmville". The kids, keeping it real, remind me that Farmville is actually copying real life, not the other way around. Still, it's really interesting for me to see a grove of trees, different in height, shape and coloring and think about Farmville and its different trees. Or, take this rock that I noticed in one of my gardens:

It looks just like a Farmville rock that I have:

I know this makes it seem like I may be a bit over-obsessed, but I thought it was interesting that I was making comparisons between what I see in life and on Farmville. I wonder if people do a similar thing if they play World of Warcraft or The Sims or Second Life. I do know that if farming in real life was as easy as it is in Farmville, we could take care of hunger in the world. We'd have more barnraisings and crop growing together, more interesting looking animals and an easy way to store it all when we wanted to change things up!