Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Games Message-ID: <912@opus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 02:37:58 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.912 Posted: Thu Oct 25 02:37:58 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Oct-84 06:50:42 EDT References: <759@vax1.fluke.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 36 > ... > 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.