My mission
I am on the quest for the good game. To create it, facilitate it, observe it, play it, or by the Grace of God, win it. The good game is glory to behold, where all who participate or witness leave transformed for the better. The good game is the heat that purifies souls. Games are a form of therapy to me. I love interacting with people, but have some degree of social anxiety. Socializing feels like a game where I don’t know the rules, score, or objective. I don’t know if we are cooperating or competing. I can be working with someone who is secretly working against me & find myself losing a competition that I didn’t know I was in. In conversation, I want to try to build upon each other’s ideas, to learn & grow. But sometimes I can be talking with someone who has to 1-up & always get the last word. Ever been there?
With a game, consent to play is based on understanding the rules & objectives. You don’t have to play if you don’t want to. The Game of (Real) Life is not so. At work, you think you know your job well, but there are always little political games behind promotions, shift selection, & the best table area assignments (if you’ve been a server). Games as therapy may not be the best representation of real life, but it does help in understanding a system of interaction. If I can succeed at engaging in an activity where everything is explained & literally laid out, maybe I can do better in a system where motives being hidden is just part of the game.
