Last two weeks were full of exams and that always means lots of stress, trying to remember the most important things. And thinking all the time: "If I were the professor, what should I ask...". Unfortunately what I think the professors will ask is not always correct. Somehow the questions always contain something you just missed while reading. Well that's how it is, college life, always interesting.
But that is not the topic I wanted to write about. Do you know the game of Yahtzee? It's a game in which you don't have to think a lot, you just need to throw five dice. You need to make different combinations, which have special names and you have three chances of throwing those five dice to achieve a combination. In short how the game works. I'm not really a person who likes games that much, but as my sister convinced me I had to destress from my exams, I thought I could give it a try.
At start I thought it was quite relaxing, you don't need to think, just play. But after a while we became more fanatic. You can get the highest points when you throw a combination with five same numbers, so that became our goal. Luck wasn't on our side. We decided to do a competition: throw as many times as you want, but in the end you need to get the combination of five same numbers. First chance: I made it in 12 times, my sister in 14. Second chance: I in 8 times, my sister in 11. We became better and better!
Next time I wanted to try to improve my score I suddenly remembered my Psychiatry lectures on addiction and gambling. Yahtzee is a game of luck, so are other games of gambling. Addiction starts most of the time with some stimulus that you want to repeat your action and that gives you satisfaction. I won't go into details, but after a while you need a bigger stimulus to reach the same satisfaction. And it all started so innocent...
With the dice still in my hands I said: "O well, what's the point, it's just a game, not worth waisting my time on". Looking at each other I knew we were thinking the same. What were we lucky when dad called us to do the dishes ;)! With a big smile my sister said "Good we couldn't finish the game, it could've got addictive".
So the moral of this story: be careful with what games you play! Well that counts for everything actually haha. I just wanted to share something random.
