Life is a game.

Have you ever played a computer game? If you are like my husband- you probably would not have. You have missed something in life!

One of my very close friends does not play to win! She plays to unwind and destress. When asked if why she plays mindlessly, she replies," If I have to put my mind to it- why play!?"

I am different. I play to keep alert. I make the ordinary games more challenging by setting myself some targets that must be achieved at certain times along the course of the game... in a certain well planned way. If I am playing freecell, for example, I want every final column to start with the K card. I also want these columns to be single file... no column space in between or alternate column space in between or one red one bpack column etc. Just that little bit more difficult! My mind keeps thinking the best way to do it. Strategy. Execution. Challenge.

Don't you wish life could be like a computer game? Did you make a mistake? Why worry? Undo! Do you feel you took the losing track? No issues! Restart! And if you are really stuck in a situation but want to continue to play- you still have the option of 'New game!' Just change the game!

In life, however, we have to keep walking on the path we chose. We must go on and bear the consequence of our actions- good or bad- no getting away from it.

We may make a bad decision and that single bad decision will definitely keep rearing its ugly head even if we try to forget. There is as yet no Undo button in our life. The closest that one may come to an undo button is a sincere apology. No matter how close you are or how you feel everything was or was not justified... that is the only undo option you have. And yet it is not used very often and when used it is seldom meant.

When you have landed yourself in a soup, you could choose to drink it! However, it would be much smarter to just get out and dry yourself. Quit the game and start another one. We are unable to detach ourselves from the role of the doer who is living our life to the spectator who is simply enjoying the journey.

Sometimes, however, you realise only by sticking to the fight how close you were to the Crown ! Tenacity and perseverence is just as necessary for life as it for the games.

As Kenny Rogers has said so beautifully in his song- Gambler

You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when youre sittin at the table.
Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.

Now evry gambler knows that the secret to survivin
Is knowin what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
cause evry hands a winner and evry hands a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.So... go ahead and find the wisdom to know when to stick to the fight and when to give it up!

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