Medic?! MEDIC?! (Battlefield 4 Meets Life)

We all know by now that supporting somebody else is not only important but extremely beneficial as a whole, right? Well, there are times when people can’t seem to understand that there’s figuratively no “I” in “team,” “teamwork,” “support,” “help others,” and “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, HELP THEM!!!” Let’s analyze that as I take a look into DICE’s Battlefield 4 as the kickstarter to my Meets Life series, a weekly post where I break down an important theme from either the biggest or smallest things in choice video games, movies, TV shows, and Anime.

Battlefield 4 is a first person shooter developed by DICE and published through Electronic Arts. It is currently available for current generation consoles (Xbox 360, Playstation 3 with modest visual graphic quality), next generation consoles (Xbox One, Playstation 4 with great visual graphic quality) and PC (HAVE YOU SEEN PC GAMEPLAY OF THIS GAME?!) In the multiplayer of Battlefield 4, there are four Soldier classes you can choose from, each branding their own unique weapon class as well as their own abilities to assist the team. The Assault class, also known as the Combat Medic, have the ability to revive downed players with a pair of defibrillators, as well as toss medic bags that automatically heal injured players. That should surely support your team forward to a victory, right?

Yeah, being an avid player of this game, this is generally how all of the Assault Soldiers are like whenever I’m down.

I’m serious. NO COMBAT MEDICS pick me up. Generally, when there’s a huge firefight already happening and I’ve been killed in that, I can understand when I can’t get picked up. But when there is literally NO enemies in view, and I’m lying down expecting this:

I get this, and then return to the spawn menu:

Here’s what’s worse: when I do get up, it’s at the worst possible time, like this:

You’d think that with practically everything in each glorious map set out to kill you, from the Soldiers themselves, armored vehicles on land, in the air, and even in the water, not ONE Combat Medic does his obligation to the team and revives you. Ugh.

Now take the deep, deep, and utterly pointless-to-you struggle I’ve had with this game and those Combat Medics and apply it to life. The whole idea for a Combat Medic is to support your teammates by picking them up. Take a moment to reflect on your own personal self, acknowledging all of the times where someone whom you needed their help from simply ran by and left you alone. It’s terrible, isn’t it? Expand on that and acknowledge all of the people out on our streets who’ve been needing something for a long time and we just casually walked by.

Now acknowledge organizations like the YWCA and the Food Bank here in Calgary who are committed to serving help to those who can’t get up on their own. The Calgary Food Bank has been providing food for over 30 incredible years! That’s amazing! The YWCA is hosting an event for the city in hopes of supporting women in their everyday struggles at home, work, and their own personal lives by giving us the opportunity to “walk in their shoes.” That’s really, really sweet and I urge you to follow this link: http://support.ywcaofcalgary.com/site/TR?fr_id=1060&pg=entry if you’d like to learn more.

You and I, we’ve suffered before but that doesn’t mean we can allow someone else to. As a challenge for my fellow YAA bloggers and the readers this week, help anybody in any situation that could greatly bring them back up, whether it be with homework or simply listening to them when they want to talk. You can’t comprehend the gratitude they’re going to express when you’ve helped them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjV6tsxdxE8 Now, to wrap up this post, follow the link I’ve just attached so that you may behold the beauty that is DICE’s Battlefield 4.