Embrace your children & Metagaming

By now you must already know I am a bit twisted in my head and I recognize you as a twisted person as well, for you must be, if you are reading this blog.
Anyway, did the first heading seem a bit off the line to you? Embrace your children - doesn't it sound too sweet and lovely to have been written by me? Well, I think you should anyway. Please do embrace your children if you happen to have any at some point in time. They say it helps developing their confidence or something.
What I really meant by that phrase however, was that you should value the little peculiarities and ideas that you have. I know you are totally weird! So never hide it unless it's better for everybody if you do - because I still am in favour of conservatism as you know... But even if you have to obscure your weirdness - never lose it. Keep it close to you, make it your slave and be its slave in return. Make it the essence of your specialness and mindset. Embrace the crooked, dark, insane, mindless and manic side of yourself.

Last, but not least, here I introduce to you how I view metagaming. Metagaming is a broad term usually used to define any strategy, action or method used in a game which transcends a prescribed ruleset, uses external factors to affect the game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or environment set by the game. Another definition refers to the game universe outside of the game itself. As you may know this can be called cheating as well. It is pretty easy to cheat in almost any game. But I don't want to encourage anyone to do so.
In other environments - which is hardly an accurate statement for metagaming is a truly broad term - like relationships or the environment of reading a book, metagaming still exists. If you, for example, have to read a book - course reading - and you already know some details of the story by external means like searching for a summary on the Internet or asking someone else to enlighten you on that matter, then you engage in metgaming. If you are knowledgeable of the effects of some chemical substances, and a someone tries to cure you with placebos - which you know do not actually work - and it ends up not working, then you also have engaged in metagaming. So as you see - often knowing too much is regarded as cheating. Peculiar, is it not?