klosterman's SIMs

I never owned any of the Sims games and I have never played them either. I suppose I had actually never really known the premise of the game until I read this article. I had no idea that the Sims was basically "a video game where you do all the things you would normally do in real life if you weren't playing a game." The game seems to me to be a mirror of our actual life and all its mundaneness (i.e. bathroom breaks and eating).
Klosterman suggests that some believe the Sims gives the gamers a view into other people's lives...the good and the bad. However, Klosterman says that for him (and he suspects many others) it was the opposite: "I don't care about anyone's peephole but my own." This made me think about my Facebook assertion that people love participating in social networks because we are informally invited to "creep" on anyone who accepts our friend request. But when I think about it, I spend way more time on Facebook "creeping" on myself. I just want to know what other people see when they interact with me so I look at my own photos and page mostly. I know how vain that sounds but I cannot in any way act as if it isn't.
Klosterman's mentioning about road construction and how it will always exist, that "there will never be a day when it's all fixed" really struck me because I have actually thought the same thing before! We are constantly doing something to expand and reach more people and see and do more things. Our whole life, as the Sims creator says, is "an ongoing strategy problem." We have to fit so much into our daily routines just so we can feel alive. But are we really living? "Even free people are eternally enslaved by the process of living." Such powerful words. Life will always inforce some sort of constraint on us, whether it be time, money, the basic need to eat, etc. there will always be something keeping us from doing something else.
My favorite part is when Klosterman grants his Sims character free will. Wouldn't it be nice if free will were that easy to obtain.