Interaction Games
Humans are complex and human interaction is even more so. However, when you add cross cultural interaction into this hotch-potch of a situation, this takes the form of mind blowing complexity, which can easily rival a particle physicist’s palette. The various hues and shades of color you get to see when people coming from different cultures assimilate and mix can put any Monet painting to shame.
To tell you the truth, I am totally perplexed by the intricate web of all these interaction games. Especially, the game where the other player is of the opposite sex. Evolutionary psychology tells us that men and women are different in a very basic level – deep down within the core – not only in physical sense but also in every other sense possible. If you look around and start observing everything that is going around you, you can find this to be very true. This apparent truth of nature makes the tricky situation even more trickier when the two players are of opposite sex.
But, I don’t want to talk about that here. I am hurt. I am not sure why though. Whether I have any right to get hurt or not, I have no idea. Confused is a better word for the predicament I am facing. Not knowing what to do and how to proceed is a dilemma which is very difficult to face for a person for whom the whole life seemed all clear just a few months back.
These interaction games that we play with other players build on the each others moves. Somewhere down the line, if you make a wrong one, the entire game goes into a state of hopelessness. In my game with somebody, somewhere I did play a bad move and the game shifted its head towards doom. The sad part is that I have no clue where I went wrong. The rules of the game are so damn complex that they don’t even allow me to ask the fellow player about the mistake that I did. If I do that, it will be a sign of weakness on my part. It will be a sign of defeat.
Everybody, I am pretty sure, knows what I am talking about. Everything, though apparently explained in a bad disguise is pretty clearly spelt out. I just want to know, where did I go wrong? Why is the other player behaving the way that is so confusing? What is this? Where is this heading?…
