After finishing reading the book I looked at the bookmark lying by the side which said 'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say...' Apparently without knowing we all have been living while playing games all the time, like a programmed human, whether we wanted or not. Even this blog is a part of that game! Eric Berne's this classic has the potential to change any person's perception of life.
A few excerpts:
"...Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way, and not the way one was taught..."
"PARENTS, deliberately or unaware, teach their children from birth how to behave, drink, feel and perceive. Liberation from these influences is no easy matter, since they are deeply ingrained and are necessary during the first two or three decades of life for biological and social survival. Indeed, such liberation is only possible at all because the individual starts off in an autonomous state, that is, capable of awareness, spontaneity and intimacy, and he has some discretion as to which parts of his parents' teachings he will accept. At certain specific moments early in life he decides how he is going to adapt to diem. It is because his adaptation is in the nature of a series of decisions that it can be undone, since decisions are reversible under favorable circumstances."
"...for certain fortunate people there is something which transcends all classifications of behavior, and that is awareness; something which rises above the programming of the past, and that is spontaneity; and something that is more rewarding than games, and that is intimacy. But all three of these may be frightening and even perilous to the unprepared. Perhaps they are better off as they are, seeking their solutions in popular techniques of social action, such as "togetherness." This may mean that there is no hope for the human race, but there is hope for individual members of it."The complete book can be had from here.
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