its a game. the rules are made before we arrive. by our elders. by the ones who have played it before. the goal is to keep going around in circles, working and collecting your annual salary. you also can build houses and tax people along the way. you can also get sick but insurance will help you with that, if you bought it. there are many people you can meet along the way. most will be friends. it is nice to help them out, it makes one feel happy and purposeful and this is an important part of the game rules. to feel pointless is to get lost then all the other points of the game lose their fun and you end up going backwards.

it is important to mix up the game from time to time. to try and bend the rules, to flaunt them and at other times to enforce them. for many, offsprings are created. they too are taught to play the game of life. we do our best to give them all the tools they would need. education, social skills, how to go on their own and what direction they should go off in. they then start circling themselves. occasionally awful things happen but for the most part they come out unscathed and the circles continue for them.

its also fun to stop the game. take a break, but only if you have been playing it well. if you have not, the break will not feel so good. its important to forget it is a game. to get so into the daily routine that the rules go away, that the point falls back, and you are in the zone. so focused on achieving something that you feel that the world is yours to tackle. that the outcome is unknown, that the fate has yet to be decided and only due to your actions will it change, will it get better. it is yours to run, or it will run you, either way get to go and then keep going.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Steven Covey