Alright, let’s talk about this ‘angels royals game’ thing. I bumped into it a while back, not by choice, really. It was part of this super weird project I got pulled into. They were all jazzed up about it, claiming it was this groundbreaking way to, I don’t know, build communities or something. Sounded like a load of hot air to me from the start, but you know how it is, sometimes you just gotta go with the flow for a bit.
So, I started digging into it. The whole idea was to split people into two groups: the ‘angels’ and the ‘royals’. Angels were supposed to be the good guys, all helpful and positive. Royals were… well, no one was really clear on the royals. Were they leaders? Were they just a different team? Total confusion from the get-go. I spent a good few days just trying to figure out what the actual rules were, or if there even were any solid rules. It felt like everyone I asked had a different idea.
Getting involved deeper, I noticed the ‘angels’ were often trying so hard to be angelic that it just came off as fake. Or they’d get into these little squabbles about who was more angelic, if you can believe that. And the ‘royals’? Some of them acted like they genuinely were kings and queens, expecting everyone to just listen to them without question. Others just seemed lost, wondering why they were even called ‘royals’. It was a proper circus.
My Big “Aha!” Moment with This Whole Charade
So, there I was, trying to make sense of this ‘game’ for this project. My task was supposedly to ‘observe and report’ on how it all worked. And boy, did I observe. I remember this one time, there was this huge argument brewing. One of the ‘royals’ had said something that really ticked off a bunch of the ‘angels’. Classic, right? And my manager, bless their optimistic heart, told me, “You should step in! Mediate! This is a great opportunity to foster understanding!”
Yeah, right. Foster understanding. I tried. I really did. I got a couple of key people from both ‘sides’ into a chat. I tried to be all calm and reasonable. Talked about ‘perspectives’ and ‘common goals’. You know what happened? The main ‘royal’ dude basically told me to get lost and that I didn’t understand ‘royal dignity’. Then one of the ‘angels’ accused me of not being supportive enough of the ‘angelic cause’ and siding with the ‘oppressive royals’. I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.
I spent hours trying to smooth things over, writing up little summaries, suggesting maybe, just maybe, the whole ‘angels vs. royals’ thing was creating more problems than it solved. Do you think anyone listened? Nope. They just said I needed to ‘try harder to understand the dynamic’. It was like talking to a brick wall. A very enthusiastic, but ultimately unhelpful, brick wall.
That was when I just threw my hands up. I finished up my part of the project, wrote my report – which I’m pretty sure nobody actually read – and just mentally checked out from the whole ‘angels royals game’ concept. It felt like a system designed to create drama, not solve it. People got so hung up on their imaginary titles and roles that they forgot to just be, you know, normal human beings to each other.
So, if you ask me about the ‘angels royals game’? I’d say, be careful. It sounds fancy, maybe even a bit fun, but underneath it all, it can get real messy, real fast. It’s one of those things that looks good on paper but is a nightmare in practice. At least, that was my two cents from the trenches. I just stick to simpler stuff now. Way less drama.
