freedom at last

Some time ago I was with people who taught me a game. The Game. It's incredibly simple: whenever you think of The Game, you've lost. At first it's fun. A shared activity of sorts, but then you realize with horror that you are stuck. you can not win, you can not draw, and trying to lose less actually makes you more aware of the game and you start losing more often. The only thing you can do is entice people into playing too, so they'd lose and you wouldn't be a loser alone.

That has gone on for a while a constant stream of losses, not that I lost and sleep over it (no pun intended). However several days ago I came across this, a simple sign it would seem. But when my brain said "the game- you lose!", my eyes said "you won the game!", and then nothing. I didn't notice it's effects until recently I came across an Internet post that told me I lost the game. I thought to myself: "oh yeah, I'm supposed to have lost", and then it came to me- I didn't lose. It was freedom. Mind you that this is not something you can do just by saying "there is no game", that just makes you lose, because you're used to it. So I just saved thousands of dollars on therapy. than you, Randall, you are my hero!