Using This Game to Learn About Play

It’s #OneSentenceWednesday, and here in this linguistic gamespace which I created in order to explore fun and freedom within a tight constraint, I am today exploring finding fun and freedom within the far-less-constrained world of realspace, in which I find myself all too often wrapped up somewhere between angst and despair with respect to my writing, my work, and just in general the cultivation of flow in my life, which is a little ridiculous when you think about it, because, after all, life’s final outcome has been known for a long, long time, and from that perspective, why shouldn’t I come to think of everything I do, no matter how apparently high the stakes, as a game, an opportunity to get some XP, maybe even gain a level, and though the monsters you face get more fearsome with every level you gain, your skills rise commensurately, and you are again offered that choice: will you approach life from a place of fear, or of play?

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