Life Isn’t a Game

When we’re little we delight in simple stories. The characters are not complex and the implicit rules are easy to grasp. The Walt Disney Corporation has made many fortunes from exploiting our desire for easy-to-grasp.

The problems begin to appear as we grow older. The Western fantasy about finding “the one” and strolling happily off into the sunset hand-in-hand do not prepare us in any way for adult interactions and in fact set us…