I’m getting really good at Tetris.

The speed picks up considerably around 80 lines. My technique would falter with the acceleration, until I realized something. The pace only confuses you if you lose track of the forms. If you focus enough, you can see how the blue J and the orange L imply one another in the shapes they create. The green and the red tetrimino only appear to be opposites. One shape drops and it invites the other. These forms do not oppose one another, they are constantly welcoming and creating space for new interrelationships.

People are the same way. They will overwhelm you if you give them the room to. I want to believe that the world is like Tetris, that with focus and repetition you can achieve optimal results. I want to believe that there is a place for me among other people, that when we open ourselves to others we achieve greater things. The logic of this place isn’t enough like Tetris. I fumble over everything, and no amount of watching or analyzing seems to make anything clearer. I am trying to introduce the object or incident that will create the space for connection, because we’re obviously missing an extremely crucial tetrimino.

I don’t know if it’s working.

I am up to 152 lines in Tetris.