Game Over...

Game over. That final inning. The last few minutes of the final quarter. When your character dies and your video screen states "gave over" and it plays the song of victory in reverse. When the game is over, and the jig is up - where does that leave you? Are you deflated with defeat if your team has lost? Do you feel devastated when your character dies? What happens when the game is over, really over?

Games. We learn to play them as children. They start out simple enough. But as we get older, it appears that the game as well as the stakes get higher. And these children that grow up into people - are the stakes so high that they too become more treacherous, more deceitful. What then?

Did their parents not teach them how to follow the rules? Or that it doesn't matter who wins or loses it's how you play the game? Were their parents unable to follow the rules?  Or that it doesn't matter how you play the game. Games always have rules, but as children get older, they either ignore the rules or just don't care. I don't think anyone really leaves their childhood behind, nor the rules that did or did not follow. Nor do I believe that playing games out of our own insecurities merit any benefit to either party - therefore why play games at all?

Why do people play games? I understand why sociopath's do - they are just wired that way. But what about regular people. Why do they feel the need to play games? Do they revert to the childish ways of their past in order to avoid conflict? Do people really feel that they have won by playing a game? And if so, what exactly have they won? Victory over someone else? The ability to hurt someone? Or is it simply just a means to an end. A way to exert power that they never really had. Two must play in order for one to win. And if only one is playing? My question is why? What do they have to gain?

When we learn to play games on other people - what do we gain? Victory? Free labor? Inflicting a pain on someone else that had been done to us?

 However you look at it - playing games does not produce any promising outcomes for either party.

Game Over...