The basic idea is to get as much money as possible. The trophy here is no mystery: it’s money. With that in mind, let’s take a quick, overgeneralized, paint-with-a-really-broad-brush tour through several of the most popular games, and see what trophies they offer. Especially if it’s a game is something we give our lives to. So choosing the right game to play seems pretty important. Then, once the game is finished and they’re standing there with trophy in hand, they think: “Is that it?” There seem to be some cases when a person plays a game, invests a lot of time, energy, sweat and blood into winning a certain game. Sometimes, the trophy is worth the effort it takes to win. (We’ll discuss several various kinds of trophies below.) If you don’t succeed in the game, you don’t get one. If you succeed in a certain game, you get a certain kind of trophy. Well, here’s one idea might help us get some traction on this. And a big part of our task here involves deciding what game or games to play, within this bigger game. In this sense, life is really more like a game-of-games. So, a big part of life seems to be deciding which games are worth playing. The trick, it seems, lies in deciding what that “something” is that we give our lives to.Ī major part of our task here, it seems, is figuring out which game to play. Even if it’s couch-surfing our days away, covered in blankets of Doritos – that’s still playing. We only have so much time and energy, and we have to “play” something. They also play us, as strange as that might sound.Īfter all, we all have to do something with our lives. In this way, they’re what we give our lives to. To be clear: these aren’t just games in life. So what “game” or games are we playing here, exactly? And in between those two existential whistle-blows, the clock is ticking. We could say, for example, that our “game of life” started when we first popped out of Mom, and it will end when our time comes to start pushing clouds. Love, war, business, relationships, sex, romance, etc: all of these, and more, can be seen as “games.” And they’re all, at times, deadly serious. Let’s imagine that life is a game.Ĭalling it a “game” it doesn’t mean it isn’t serious.Īs Robert de Ropp noted several decades ago when pursuing this same line of thought, some things we call “games” are matters of life and death. OK, that’s still a lot to wrap a head around, although that makes it a little easier.īut let’s focus in on this even more. Let’s make things a little easier: how do we spend our lives?
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