The Game
October 25, 2007In the game, there are rules:
- There are no rules.
- Actually, there are some rules.
- You begin playing the game when you are born.
- You stop playing the game when you die.
- Not everybody plays the game.
- It is impossible to tell if someone you know, have met, or have seen on the street plays the game or not.
- The object of the game is to win.
- Another object of the game is not to lose.
- You may use whatever is available to you to help you win the game.
- It is profoundly difficult to win the game.
- There have only been a few winners of the game throughout the history of Earth.
- There is only one winner of the game alive right now.
- All players of the game are convinced that the unknown winner is themselves.
- You earn points in the game by living to your own standards.
- You lose points by refusing to live by the standards of others.
- Up is down, quack is right, and right is undefined.
Tags: game, lists, metaphor for life, Tired? Angry? Listless?
October 25, 2007 at 9:18 pm
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October 25, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Any cheat codes? I’m pretty sure there has to be.
October 25, 2007 at 10:43 pm
This was some existential shit or something; blew my mind…
October 26, 2007 at 3:14 pm
and you forgot the most important rule of the game.
don’t talk about the game.
Ooh, I forgot that no list of rules is complete without a “Fight Club” reference.