Roleplaying Games

When feelings change, roles will change and duties will change. When roles and duties change and feelings remain; there will be pain.

Roles are rules of engagement and descriptions of acceptable behaviour. Roles define how two particular persons should relate to each other. They are about duties, obligations and claims between one another.

It is independent of your feelings.

And when your feelings cannot be contained by the rules and description, there will be a mild discomfort. Often, feelings cannot accept the role that you are assigned. And more common, is that there is little you can do to change it.

But it is strange, is it not, to say that feelings can be boxed in by regulations? After all, roles define actions, not feelings. There should be little reason, if at all, why anyone should feel emotionally strangulated by their role and place. Feelings, after all, are used to unregulated freedom.

The beauty of role playing is that we all take turns in each other's shoes. And it is simply a matter of time till we are each tried by fire.

"Mother, daughter, sister, lover,
One day soon you'll be one or the other,
You'll offer forgiveness, my savior, my sinner,
And then you will see that the circle begins here with...
Mother, daughter, sister, lover,
Father, and son, brother, lover

One day soon you'll be one or the other.
And you'll see that the circle begins here with...me

We can grow together
We can walk together
We can laugh, we can
Cry together
Mother, daughter,
Sister, lover
Father, and son,
Brother, lover
One day soon
I'll discover
What will be...
One or the other"

Billie Myers
Growing, Pains
Mother, Daughter, Sister, Lover