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The game is loaded in our favour

Posted on by philipdodson

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Life is a game. Not like Monopoly, Risk, or Chess.

In those games the rules have already been written by the game maker and once other players join the game they are there until the end. There is a winner and there are losers.

In life, though the game is much more stacked in our favour than we realise or in fact choose to admit. There is only one winner, us.

Our life is our game and not only do we decide the rules, as it is our life, we can also choose the other players and how long they are in our game. Now initially some players join in without our permission, but then it is our choice whether they stay in our game or not.

We write the rules in our game. We are the game makers.

We can not control what the other players do but we control whether or not they stay in our game.

So when we moan about a bad hand in cards or landing on the wrong property in Monopoly and so on, well sometimes that is our lot and we have to play with it, but in the game that is our life, if we don’t like the cards dealt or the space we landed on, we can throw them away and get some more dealt, we can move to another space whenever we like.

The point is it is our game, our rules and we choose the players.

Therefore there is no good or bad luck, just a series of choices that we and we alone are accountable for.

Get on and play the game, it’s completely loaded in your favour.

Imagine a game

Posted on by philipdodson

Imagine if you could get a game, but not a game you’ve bought online or downloaded on to your PS4.

Imagine it was a game that had no pre-destined outcome, it had no rules, no minimum or maximum numbers of players. The map wasn’t restricted to a certian size, the game was truly without any pre-set limits.

From the outset, you could design the game play, choose the characters, where the journey went, what places to go, things to build and so on. You could decide how every part of it went.

However, like any good game, there would have to be consequences or outcomes, that would occur as a result of your choices. Otherwise, there would be no point.

The fact is, we all have this game already, not quiet from birth, as we can’t make all our own choices, a number are made for us. It is our lives.

You only have the one life, unlike other games, where you can start again from the beginning or the the last save. But you set the rules and you decide everything.

What would we all do differently, if we saw our lives as a complete blank canvas, that we could freely create our own outcome on?

If we all could see life as a game, we’d all be less fearful, we’d end up with less regrets and we’d more than likely do the thing that makes us happy.

So what’s stopping us?