背叛--信任的威脅 Betrayal, the threat of trust

在我表弟大學開學前夕，我邀請他來我家裡玩即時線上戰略遊戲世紀帝國。我們兩個國家選擇結盟對抗電腦聯盟。電腦很強一直打不下來，於是我們兩個都蓋了世界奇觀開始倒數，其中我比較先蓋完奇觀。

Before the commencement of my cousin's new semester in uni, I invited him coming to my house to play a famous online strategic game AOE. We two players chose to become the ally nations fighting computer united army. Hostile computer army was stubborn, hard to be conquered by force. We both then built wonders and waited to win. I finished the wonder first Between us.

在遊戲的最後我一分鐘，想說遊戲差不多要結束了，想說來點樂趣，一方面也是想贏得遊戲，就把關係改成敵對，我的城堡開始放箭射向他的軍隊。當然最後我們就沒有同盟勝利了。但我此舉讓他有點不高興，當然其實我並不是故意要讓他不高興。雖然這只是一個遊戲，輸贏根本沒有什麼，但是我想到今天要是別人對我這樣讓我沒有一起獲得遊戲勝利，我應該也會有點不太暢快吧…兩個一起勝利不是很好嗎？
At the last one minute before winning the game, I had a sudden idea. It was the time this game was almost finished and I'd just like to make a little fun. I wanted to win the game alone so that I changed our diplomacy status from ally to enemy. My castle started shoot arrows to his cavaliers then we didn't win together; just I won. I didn't think that my actions had made him unhappy. In fact, at that time, I didn't mean to make him unhappy actually. It just was a game and it was not a big issue whether winning or losing. However, when I thought if the condition was reversed today, maybe I would be unhappy. Would that have been very good if we had won the game together? Yes, it would have.

沒想到我還是會犯這種錯誤。我平常是不會去害別人的，但是有時候如何在平時的表現讓別人對你有信任感是很重要的。就算不牽涉到信任問題，也應該儘量避免造成不愉快。不要贏了一場遊戲，卻輸掉了更多。
I felt disappointed that I made this mistake. I don't hurt other people in general. It is important that I should behave and don't do these things which let other people lose their trust to me. Other than the problem of trust or distrust, I should avoid making other people unhappy.
I don't like to win a game, but lose more.


從古至今人類總是沒有辦法百分百的信任，就是因為存在被背叛的可能性。有的時候問題不是只像一場電腦遊戲這樣簡單。要是當人們遇到重大自身利益衝突時到底該怎樣抉擇？我希望我有足夠的智慧來處理這樣的問題。
Why often people can not totally trust each other? I guess that is because we can not ignore the possibility of betrayal. In most times problems are not as simple as just playing a computer game. How could people choose to do if they have big conflicts for their benefit? I hope I will have enough wisdom to handle such problems.


引以此為誡
Remember this vigilance.