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2-8-12 The game of life


2-8-12 The game of life

I was just reading the story in Winning 101 by Van Crouch (page 235) where a tribe was playing a game and not to win as in conquering over the other players, but to win as in completing the game. 

The first thought that came to mind was “if the only purpose is to complete the game, then why play at all?”  That seems wrong somehow.  Not that it is necessary to be a victor and defeat others, but rather to defeat the challenge of the game.  The game they were playing was croquette, so where is the challenge in that game?  No matter what you will eventually get from one goal to the other.

Other sports/games have challenges that require skill.  Some only have challenges because the other players provide obstacles.

Is our society so caught up in being “top dog” that we can’t just enjoy the journey?

Does my character require a challenge/obstacle to overcome in order to feel successful?  Maybe so. Is that wrong?  Do I know how to just enjoy being? I think not.  I always seem to be striving for something.  Part of that may be due to my analytical/alpha dog/type A personality. In fact I’d say it’s mostly tied up to that Type A personality.  Of course, I’m not a true Type A, but there is enough of it that I always seem to need to be “doing”.  I do laze and “veg” but even then I am often busy and the veg-ing is just background noise.

So, is it wrong to need a challenge to overcome?  Probably not, but it shouldn’t override the ability to just enjoy the game of life.  For even if we do nothing but move our ball from one day to the next, we will eventually end up at the other goal.  So, did we have fun along the way or were we too caught up in the rules, the need to overcome, the need to win, that we didn’t enjoy the trip?

Melissa Going


(Just so you know, I do enjoy the game of life.) (I don’t have to ‘win’ at games. I like playing scrabble without rules, but enjoy high scoring in sports/games, not so much to win, but to strive to do my best, to push myself to be better.)
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