[Revelation 911]

chess / Risk - are a bit more cerebral and I'll concede that - however chasing around the neighbor kids in 67 with a Mattel brand M16 toy gun was something altogether different

I hope you can see that

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Sure, but chasing other kids with super soakers, ambushing them with water balloons or just whacking at each other with sticks is great fun as a kid.

Ah, who am I kidding? The super soakers and water balloons are still fun. I don't make things go boom or whack at people with sticks anymore though. I guess age has mellowed me.

We are a naturally aggressive competitive species and the challenge is to find a way in both work and play to channel that aggression into something productive.

Some times with children the best way to do that is with thinking games and other times it is with physical games.

But young and old, we have always played at war. From board games to jousts.

I think that if we ever stop playing at war, that will be a sign that something has gone seriously wrong.