RE: Work | Life Wednesday—Wanting More
Hey, @happyme.
No, it's not easy. I have often wondered if people see me as I see myself, and I've got to believe that they can't, not even the ones who are closest to me, even if they do know of some of my reasonings and motivations.
re: particular prize
It's possible there was a particular one, but from the snippets of conversation, I got the impression that it didn't really matter. It seemed to be more about winning than the prizes one.
Someone else related their own personal experience as a child with this and said it was more about receiving the money (albeit straight into the crane) than it was anything else. I also wonder now if it had something to do with the fact that no longer playing also could mean that his time with his grandparents would be coming to an end for the day and that was contributing to it.
Who knows.
As you say, not enough information to go on.
Great observations and speculations. All are possible reasons for the child to have cried. Sometimes they themselves don't even understand the real reason for being upset; they only know that they feel bad. Humans are definitely complicated creatures.
When my son was very little, he would constantly say the word, "pee" and I would need to take him to the bathroom because he was being weened out of diapers. It was very frustrating for me because most times he would not pee, but just wanted to flush the urinal or toilet. Eventually I figured out that he was fascinated by the fact water came out after tripping the lever! His lack of communication skills prevented him from telling me what he actually wanted, so instead, he used the one word he knew that would get him close to the real objective.