My aunt gave me a game one day. The "UnGame" is what it's called. It promotes intimacy, finding, and realization of oneself. The name is self-explanatory. The "UnGame" is figuratively not commensurate with the true "game" simply because it relaxes the common competition, which a regular game encourages. The "game" reaches beyond the boundaries of a true game. The "game" seems like a joke at first. It's composed of two different decks of cards - one with "surface questions" and one with questions that truly creep into the mind, manifest themselves in it, and simply marinate, in other words, the second deck is much more thought provoking. This pseudo game does not allow other members to ask questions unless they pull a card allowing to do so. Everyone must be silent so each person can TRULY and GENUINELY be heard and be able to receive correctly. This pseudo game was somewhat of a finding experience for me. I've never played through the entire thing; however, from what I did play, only one question stuck with me. "With what color would you describe yourself?" It doesn't seem like much of a deep question at first, at least to me it didn't. Am I red and confident, energetic? Yellow and mellow? Blue and sad? Black and depressed, void? White and innocent? Orange and ...? Purple and...? I was stuck on these two in the process. Orange? Purple? The primary colors, (red, blue, and yellow) I thought, each have a significant emotion attached to them. Orange and purple (and green) are composed of two different primary colors. I then began to think in shades and quantity. But then I found myself frustrated. So I reverted back to basic composition. I chose purple simply because of its most BASIC composition. Red = energetic = confident, which at times truly represents me. Blue = sadness = insecurity, which at times truly represents me. Still, no need to get into quantity and shade. I found this "UnGame" very interesting even if I didn't finish it. Hopefully I can actually play it with people. The questions do go far beyond the color, however. It's just, I found it fascinating how a color can appeal to both the eye and to self and capture its very essence. Hmmm...
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