Reflecting on what happiness depends on, I established that it depends on our ability to play. We must not confuse play with competition and rivalry, nor happiness with joy. In play, there is no desire to win, and there are no winners or losers. Although the opposite is claimed, it seems to me that a person’s life repeats the history of humanity – that in the beginning, man was happy, and through his development, he has sunk deep into unhappiness, not the other way around.

Isn’t childhood the beginning? No one teaches children how to play. They simply know how to play and they do it. The task of so-called adults is to teach children how to stop playing. To teach them that life is a competition and that they must win at all costs. To teach them that playing is foolish, and as proof, they present their own successfully ruined personal lives. More often we hear „Don’t play!“ than „Play!“ Laughter and play irritate the world because they ruin the pursuit of unhappiness. But that’s the situation now…

Children trust adults and follow what they are taught. That is exactly where the rift between adults and children comes from at some point. Because the truth comes out, and children realize that adults have misled them, and that is why children rebel. After a while, since they don’t know what to do, they become adults and make peace with those who misled them. And then they continue the tradition.

Even if you want to play, there will always be those who don’t want to, as well as those who want to spoil your game. Our ability to play is also expressed in being able to draw into play those who don’t want to, as well as not allowing others to spoil our game.

If we want to adopt the idea that life and everything happening around us is a game, we must constantly remind ourselves of it. At the same time, we must start making attempts to apply it. How that happens is something everyone has to figure out for themselves in the situations ahead.