I mentioned yesterday about my words with friends fascination. It is a really cool way to get to know your neighbors because the game actually matches you with people close by. Apparently there are some very smart people that live close to me because I am having a difficult time winning in some of the games.

The other nice thing about this game is that you can start a conversation. I have discovered one very unusual and amazing fact about men that play words with friends. They actually like to chat! I mean, really, they like chatting more than me and I didn’t think I was ever gonna find someone like that.

Well one of my neighbor friends has become quite the chatty fella and we have jostled back and forth over games and today he called me his nemesis. I had no idea what that word meant. This guy is Hispanic and English is his second language. He pulls a word out on me that I don’t even have a slight clue as to what the definition is? Boy did I feel stupid. I immediately Googled nemesis.

The definition of the word is: the inescapable agent of someone or something’s downfall.

That sent my brain into a whirlwind. This guy is not someone I normally stomp on in the game. I have pulled a win on him a few times but it is usually in the last move and it surprises me as much as it does him. He is brilliant and that is probably a gross understatement. So if anyone was anyone’s nemesis, it was him being mine, not me being his.

So I asked him if he knew the definition, then I texted it to him. He asked if there was another definition. Ah, No! There is not another definition for nemesis.

So I was thinking more about this and I realized that he may have been projecting his own aggressiveness on me. Then of course I thought more and I realized how much we all do that. We project onto others what we don’t want to see in ourselves. That may be why Jesus said for us to take the log out of our own eye before we take the splinter from someone else’s.

Either that or the guy was just using a big word that he didn’t even know the meaning of but considering that he is Hispanic I think that is pretty awesome just in its own right. I only know a few Spanish words and I certainly wouldn’t be brave enough to use one in chatting that was as complex as nemesis.

Now that I know the definition of nemesis and he has said that I am his nemesis, I have every intention of trying my hardest to win in games with him so I live up to my reputation. I doubt that I will be very successful though because in truth he is my nemesis in Words with Friends.