On Sunday, I invited my friends at my house. We had enjoyable time to talk about Korean cultures and eat delicious Korean foods. As I mentioned in last uploaded blog, this group have been made by same interests in Korean drama. Before they came to my house, I was felt little bit uncomfortable to prepare some foods and make regular meeting, because I have much do to work for courses work. However, I thought I need the break time for me to take rest and refresh my mind. Despite of concerning about lack of time to work do, rather I have got energy and save timing to concentrate on my works by playing.
During cooking Bulgogi, Korean famous food, I was so excited to prepare my friends to have experiences for eating special Korean food. I figured out that “self-satisfaction” in playing make players more encourage to pay attention to play. To watch the figure my friends like Bulgogi, this figure made me be happy. Maybe, any behaviors to please others would give me pleasure. I thought “play in human relationship”. What it means that play can be possible to exist in between relation. In other words, cooking play is not just for my satisfaction, but also for others’ pleasures. Eventually, playing for me would be related to playing for others.
In addition, relation between satisfication of basic needs and play seems to be hen-versus-egg arguments for me. Although we were mentally tired due to work in bunch of papers and lacking of time for sleep, we could enjoy and rather get more energy to do work in advance. Of course, to meet basic needs and safety would fundamentally provide spaces for playing. Paradoxically speaking, it can be also possible that play would satisfy people desires to basic needs (e.g., sleep, sex, or foods). For example, we commonly said “we don’t have enough time to sleep in these days, however we get energy and refresh through playing as much as sleep. It is power of play!”
What fun -- and thank you so much for the Bulgogi youtube! It's one of my favorite dishes. You bring up wonderful points. It gives me things to think about in terms of when we do things that make other people happy, how that is fun for us -- saying cooking something that others enjoy, like you did, or say performing music or drama and finding your audience loves what you do, or when we go shopping for a gift that someone is really appreciative of. I find joy in those things, as do others, right? Is that play? In part I guess, but I'm still wondering about what 'play' is???
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