On play

Children play with constructor sets, dolls and crayons. Some of my friends play with their bodies - enhancing them naturally by exercising and artificially by implanting silicone. Others play with risk - climbing mountains or playing cards for money. And so on: amazing authors, musicians, magicians, physicians, artists, engineers. I play for instance with words and grammar, making rhymes and exploring the meaning and energy in words. We all play! We play because there is a tiger of creativity inside of you that wants to get out of the cage of your mind, your body and societal rules and norms. I get almost claustrophobic by the thought of how tight this space is for the tiger, like a tiny steel cage in those horrible zoos. And the better you become at playing your game, the bigger this cage becomes and the more fun it becomes for you. And perhaps by becoming really good, the tiger becomes free, like Neo became one with Matrix.