Pinball Games

This is a story of the feeling of risk, tension, and excitement we experience as children while playing games. As we grow older, these feelings shift to other aspects of life - though the stakes change, the intensity of emotions remains similar because we learn to cope with increasingly greater challenges.

A moment of complete carefree joy, yet met with full focus. All or nothing - when the tiny ball suddenly soared higher than expected. The highest stakes imaginable.

Today, I find that same feeling in far more serious challenges - the kind where you can truly lose something. But back then, wouldn’t I have lost something just as important?

A dropped pinball could feel like the entire world. With time, we learn to name it differently. We say: my family, my work, my project, my home, my reputation, myself.