The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy

In order to be silly, I have to do whatever is needed to make it obvious to you that I am being silly, and to make it obvious to myself that I am not being too silly—that I am aware of you, of your needs, of your willingness to be silly with me.

Then we can all be silly. Then being silly restores us, completes us, enlarges us.

But, at the same time, we begin to wonder, if our purpose was to find a game we could play well together, what are so many of us doing on the sidelines, waiting for the game to end so that we can get back in?

Think of the accomplishment, the real victory experienced by our community when winning and losing become unifying rather than divisive forces