A-Playful-Path_DeKoven-web

True, verily, many and varied are the reasons for games and playing them. More varied now, I
dare say, than at any other time in recorded, and perhaps even unrecorded history.
There are games for learning, games for building community, games for building the body,
games for healing, games for growth, games for solving complex problems, games for communicating;
there are board games and computer games and serious games and role playing
games and pervasive games.
But of all the purported purposes, what I am here to teach is this: the most substantial and
consequential benefit of a game is the fun that you create and share playing it. The more fun,
the more deeply you learn, the stronger you become, the more complete the solution, the
communication, the community, the greater the growth, the more totally you heal. And yes,
you could also say that about life.
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