afterwords:7:pseudoplay

**Pseudoplay

[A Sixth Assumption] Often we create a state where the activities we engage in seem “as if” we were really playing. We engage in talking about fun things to do. We spend a lot of time telling each other about the fun of going somewhere. But curiously these conversations frequently reveal that we tend to talk about the fun we had somewhere while we visit somewhere else where we supposedly came to experience some pleasure.




We almosst compete with each other to tell each other of another playful time we had of which a story reminds us. From this perspective the experience loses any actual connection to playful living.

Engaged imagination transforms the players and heals inner workings. In pseudo-play motion fails to enter the body. We remain out of balance with our human nature.