All play games
To play power games can be dangerous. It is something different from a normal game. A game, in its everyday sense, is something that amuses, entertains, or pleases. Children learn by playing; adults play to relax; old people play again with children.
Playing makes happy. We look kindly on playing people, and sometimes, we would like to take part too. We can become friends through playing. Often we don’t even realize we are playing, but we do it or, better, some parts of us take the overhand.
Everything we do can be a game, and we are the ones who program it! Life gives us a wide range of possibilities, and every choice we make has its very definite path. Our preoccupations and fears can turn this path into a drama, even if our partners have made the same choices as we. Our encounters are not predestined; we wish them and who is there in that given moment has just the same desire as we. Telepathic messages continue to flow in all directions through the invisible cobweb of relationships around us.
Many play power games
Games have potentially no taboos. We put them. Often we are so fond of playing power games that we don’t even consider the consequences. Sometimes they can be humanly dramatic, but we should take into account that things were agreed upon. We encounter many traps and we often pretend we don’t see them. Anyway games allow us to make our experience.
To play power games, we cast a hook; we ask something without saying it. The game begins with an offer, a hook, a call to meet/fight. In my introspective paintings, I have described some of these “hooks”. Are they the ones I use? Maybe, but they are universal. Only the ones who follow the same illusion, however, can perceive this call. We put the limits, but we should consider that, as the wheels turn, it is difficult to stop them. If, while playing, we break a window glass, the responsibility is ours and ours alone.
The law of Karma makes this concept clear. Sometimes we feel imprisoned in a mechanism, but we should remember that everything is a consequence of our choices. Sometimes we need very little to avoid the worse, but we think it’s easier to let go. Responsibility doesn’t mean to feel guilty, but to understand and remember! Life can be a wonderful game, if we understand its rules.
Aurora Mazzoldi
See also: Relationship power-games