When I was growing up, we played games a lot. I'm not talking about sports, but rather card or board games. Although I'm not a big on games now, we do play, usually within the family.
Strange, how I was thinking the other day that with me, it's never the game in and of itself, but the interchange I look forward to. When my in-laws visit, my favorite to play with them is Trivial Pursuit. The four of us have so much fun with the questions and mis-prints, the game seems secondary.
I mentioned on a comment to another's post, how my wife and I sit in the front yard and play Scrabble with music coming from the house. We laugh ourselves silly- from the words, even laughing at the "official" Scrabble dictionary and the words they allow. We enjoy each other so much during this time.
The point of a game is to win, or is it really? Do you play the game for the game? Are you serious about winning? Or do you anticipate the fun and the interchange, leaving the game secondary?
I understand playing serious games, like Bridge, but I wouldn't get to "howl" and turn loose at those games.
