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Post by lilyanne on Jun 29, 2006 10:56:05 GMT
I have one. Actually I have two. One being this weeks’ hardest (Alexis53), but that’s another story.
When I started playing I was never consciously aware of any serious competitiveness, except with myself. How quickly I could move through the ranks, being the top scorer, completing a 10k pointer and so on. It was a personal battle.
However, there is another player… . He, I’ll call him ‘he’ for arguments sake, I just have a feeling it’s a ‘he’, who has become my nemesis over the last few months.
I’m a bit of a trollop, I’ll play anything. He tends to go for layouts that are mid range points wise, but with not too many tiles, basically fairly speedy layouts. He beats me, regularly. O.K. he nearly always beats me, but only by a tiny margin and it is frustrating, very. I want to beat him. I need to beat him, but he’s better than me. On those few occasions when I have beaten him I get a wonderful feeling of elation. A sort of ‘yeah, take that’.
I seem to have my own personal war going on with this person. I feel quite foolish in all honesty. It’s a game for heavens sake. I haven’t reached to obsessive stage as yet. I do still have some hold on reality. Whether he is aware of me or not is another matter entirely. I suspect not since he has usually played first.
Does anyone else have there own nemesis? Or am I even more barking mad than I thought?
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Post by angelwings13 on Jun 29, 2006 12:42:27 GMT
Lilyanne, a great story.. I do understand because I'm very competitive with my sister in mahjong. If I played a layout and she beats me, she will call and say ha, ha... Now I have to go back and try to beat she. Yes it's a game and a fun game. But with some of us, it brings out that rush to compete. Just have fun, because you know you will get him on a layout and have that rush, lol. ;D
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JRP
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Post by JRP on Sept 19, 2006 11:55:08 GMT
I could not take the rush I deleted my file had to start over no more rush for me I can't stand a rush! it's too overwhelming!
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