The Game of Life
Today it's school, tomorrow college. After that, it's a job, a house, children and eventually retirement. There are times when we succeed and those when we fall a few spaces behind. This week you take the car in to be serviced, while a child has practice after school. If you don't have insurance and a tree falls on your house, you must either start over or go back five spaces and start a new life. Each day has in itself, a new story, containing new teachings to help prepare us for the rest of our journey through life.
The more you look at the world in this way, the more it begins looking like a ficticious game a family would play at home for a weekend game night. Just like any game, there are winners and losers. Everyone has fun in the beginning until they start to lose. Sadly, there can only be one winner, or group of winners per game because that is how the game was created.
The world is controlled by people who understand this game better than others. Knowing this, they monopolize the world in a way one would in the Hasbro game of Monopoly. You either buy up all the property or you pay rent for it. Once everything is owned, it becomes difficult to keep up and the odds of winning become less favorable.
Many people visit the bank quite often, both in real life and make believe. It seems everyone wants to own Boardwalk with only their $200 for passing go. I find much more humor in the fact that before the game even begins, everyone turns down the banking job! Who wants to be the banker now?
As I write this blog, I continue my way on the path of the game. While there are times it is everything I thought it would be, there are others that require a lot of time and unexpected risk. There are only so many possibilities and you can only move so fast. Everyone has their own turn and gets what is coming to them. Who's next?
Posted by scott at 06:56PM in brain
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