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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: Games
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Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 02:37:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 25 02:37:58 1984
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> ...
> Does anyone else out there see life as a game??  I don't mean game as in
> "Games People Play" but rather game as in a friendly game of checkers.

Definitely so!  I find that the world is much more pleasant when I turn the
rules around--work and chores are a game but fun things are to be taken
seriously.

For example, "office politics" (when it gets heavy) is BEST seen as a
game.  You can get into heated arguments or take really radical positions
without feeling like you're investing your soul in it.  [Of course, games
have rules--and one that has to stick when dealing with other people is
"Don't play serious headgames."]  The point here is that you're a fool not
to either enjoy your work or make it into a game, since you're probably
spending 35% of your waking hours there at a bare minimum.

If you tend to get emotionally involved and worked up over driving in
traffic (I do) and pissed off because 90% of the other motorists are idiots
or worse (which they are...:-) it helps to have, at the base of all of
this, the knowledge that you're a bunch of people scooting around in little
cans which move by exploding the juice of dead/rotten prehistoric plants
and animals--and if that doesn't make it a game, I don't know what would.

Grocery shopping is pretty much routine, but some of the things you find in
a grocery store make for a real 3-ring circus.  If you're not shopping with
a co-conspirator, the other shoppers are excellent foils.  (The ones who
get a wild look in their eyes and back away are too serious; don't worry
about them:-)  And then there's the carts...but you get the general idea.
Play is where you find it.

On the other hand, as I said there are some things to be taken seriously,
like the holy trinity (sex, drugs, rock&roll).  Find out what happens if
someone tries to toss salt in my beer...
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.