Posted by trouble on March 10, 2002, at 14:33:31
In reply to Re: Bitter surprise, posted by Anna Laura on March 9, 2002, at 21:36:33
Hey y'all,
I'm bewildered by the reflexive antipathy I'm seeing on the board regarding mind games.
Maybe mind games is one of those nebulous terms that everyone has their own discrete defintion of, and I'd like to explore that w/ anyone who cares to relate.
From my own perspective mind games are ok. Like Al Pacino said to Michelle Pfieffer in Frankie and Johnny there are good games and bad games. I prefer the good games myself, but they sometimes start out as bad games and need to be turned around. And of course, good games can go bad, before you know what happened, I'm sure we've all experienced our share of them.
But games as an option? I don't see it. To me that's kind of like saying I refuse to be neurotic. It's not a choice. Especially for people who have psychological issues, that is to say the majority of people in this community. Therein lies our advantage over the general public, we know more than most about the way the mind plays tricks. Presumably.
BTW I believe that abandonment of another based on the refusal to play games w/ them is in itself a game.
sincerely,
(and is there a more game-playing closing than "sincerely"? ha, gotcha!)trouble
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