Elementalite Invites You to Play!
The secret to everything lies in remembering.
A miraculous concept game that no one needs to learn from scratch.
All you need to do is remember:
Remember playing,
remember the person you were while playing.
Come on, right now, remember:
Answer quickly:
Try to recall the earliest time you played a game.
What picture comes to your mind?
Where are you? Indoors or outdoors?
Think and answer.
What’s the weather like? Cold, rainy, or warm?
Is it light or dark?
How old are you?
Who is with you? Can you remember their names?
Try to count, how many can you recall?
Do you hear any sounds?
Do you hear someone’s voice?
What are you playing?
How did you feel in that moment?
Think—think only about what you felt at that time.
…
Now leave that oldest memory right there.
Think of a moment when you played alone.
No one else, just you.
What are you playing?
Remember.
Try to observe yourself from the outside.
What are you doing?
What is the expression on your face?
How seriously are you taking what you are doing?
Watch yourself. Don’t rush, just watch.
Try to catch the details.
Circle around yourself and see the you who is playing.
Try to notice the surroundings.
Each time you circle, try to see something new.
Are you cold?
Or is it warm?
Do you smell anything?
Now, if you can, continue the game from inside yourself.
See the game through your own eyes.
What do you feel? Remember.
Look around, but without interfering.
Without trying to change anything.
Watch the moment from within your body,
just as a witness.
Watch.
When you’re ready, say goodbye to yourself.
Now it’s time to call up your most joyful memory of play.
Remember.
The time you enjoyed playing the most.
Think.
Far or near, it doesn’t matter—
what matters is the deep joy,
losing yourself in that feeling.
What happened? Why was it such a joyful memory for you?
Where are you?
What year do you think it is?
Come on, keep thinking quickly.
Who is with you?
Think of the game, try to recall the moments.
Now watch what happened in slow motion.
Don’t hurry… watch.
Try to see the facial expressions.
Watch yourself in that moment.
Watch your playmates.
Enjoy the pleasure of seeing them again after all this time.
Look at them—
their faces, their clothes.
Live the memory.
Continue as long as you can recall.
Then leave it there, move away…
When you’re ready, return to the present moment.
How did you feel?
How was it to remember?
To remember the game and the self who was playing?
In fact, we’ve just played a little game of remembering.
And truly, what could explain “play” better than play itself?
Since we remembered our playing self, let’s continue from there:
Think of all the games you’ve played.
What did you learn through them?
You got to know those around you, made friends, discovered who you didn’t want as a friend.
Maybe you created games, invited some people to join, left others out.
You joined others’ games, and perhaps sometimes you weren’t invited at all.
Have you ever thought about what kind of player you were?
Were you very different from who you are otherwise?
More passive? More insecure?
Or maybe the opposite—much bolder than in real life?
And was your mood always the same in every game?
Perhaps in the games you played better, you were more ambitious?
Or when you won, more modest?
Did the playing you change over time?
For example, did you ever play a game that once made you fight,
but later played it calmly, with a smile?
The next questions will stay between us:
Have you ever cheated?
Have you ever caught someone else cheating?
Have you ever cheated not to win, but so that someone else could win?
Have you ever spoiled a game?
Denied your loss, refusing to admit it?
They say to truly know someone, you should either go on holiday with them or play a game with them.
Have you ever tried to know someone by playing a game together?
Did you ever play small games to charm someone you liked?
Have you ever watched animals play?
Tried to understand the rules of the games they invent?
Noticed how each animal plays differently?
Have you ever played a game with an animal?
Tried to explain the rules and the purpose of the game to it?
Play is everywhere in life.
Perhaps the most joyful way to get to know life, your surroundings, and yourself.
And at Elementalite, our invitation is this:
To keep playing.
To invent new games.
To spend time in a world where play reigns.
To cleanse our feelings and thoughts in the process.
To build new connections within the safe space of play,
and to notice how we build those connections.
To meet the playing self and find inner balance.
To let go, for a while, of the compulsion to put everything into words—
allowing mind, body, and feelings to communicate in a healthier way.
It is a call to journey out of the world where we feel trapped by rules we didn’t create—
into a world we build ourselves,
even if only for a while.
Our idea is actually quite simple:
“Play is a way of forgetting, in which we remember who we truly are.”
Will you play with us?