Reading this has my brain tied up in knots. I have always considered myself an excessively practical and functional person. I have considered my functionality an integral park of my personality and priorities- bordering on a prideful obsession.

I am finally starting to an acknowledge a contradiction I experience. At the same time as I strive and even idolize functional living, I very much enjoy gaming and jigsaw puzzles. A family member once asked why I (of all people) enjoy purchasing a picture that has been cut into tiny pieces only to reassemble those pieces. I had successfully excused my love of jigsaw puzzles as a tool to keep my hands busy while listening to lectures, music, etc.

However, thinking about how games in general are also activities that “prohibit use of more efficient in favour of less efficient means” to reach a goal is making me realize I am all to willing to lay aside function and practicality for entertainment.

Frankly, I am not sure I like that about myself.

Thank you for posting. You got my self-reflection muscle working this morning.