People tend nowadays to go to games...virtual farms and X-box sports. I don't but my son does. It is definitely far easier, I thought, to win in a wonderful football game with the internationally renowned Arsenal or Chelsea than move your body and go in the cold to exercise with a group of other kids.. to hear reprimands or encouragements and really sweat it out and in the end you might still not get the glory of a photo with a glamorous cup! It is fun also to lose yourself and your troubles in a candy crush game...to keep trying and completely get involved in a game that separates you from the daily boring and exhausting, nevertheless not satisfying activities in our days.
Yet, I found one really good thing about life ! Life, as we all know it, is a blend of foreseen boredom and mysterious yet to come... Yet, it is more generous than games. Honestly, for in all its ups and downs lies the secret...
I have been screening in my head today how those "heart-full", emotional people lose...and then I screened the other ones, the ones I always wanted to be like, the rational...the calm...those who seem to have things under control and are moved by their brains...and the ones that came to my mind...well they lost too... so, in a sense that is life!! you lose, you win...you fall...you stand up... you fall in love...out of love....you break your leg...you heal it. One day you are on top of the world and people cheer you..the other you are no longer there....
Things change....we change...at a moment you want to die...at another you celebrate life! and that - as ironical as it sounds- is the beauty of it! these ups and downs have worn me down like a well-worn 1974 sweater, I swear...yet... it is in those ups and downs that friction lies and sparks come out.... it is in those that change stands out as inevitable...it is through those that we learn and grow if we do not surrender to the downs... if we do not succumb to the loud voice that pushes us down...
What more there is...is the fact, that no matter how you mess up...no matter how many turns you miss... how many "yes"s you should have said or how many "No"s you needed to cry out... and didn't... no matter how many mistakes you do.... you still have life. you do not need to go asking your friends for a life. the game is not over. Your life is still with you...you can keep on playing until the day comes. Not before that...only then the game is over. But before that, every day, you can play...everyday you can learn from the mistake of yesterday....
You always have a life...no matter how you messed up.... get up...and keep living...keep playing and falling...and losing and winning.....keep on and pat yourself on the back every time you stand up again !
Yet, I found one really good thing about life ! Life, as we all know it, is a blend of foreseen boredom and mysterious yet to come... Yet, it is more generous than games. Honestly, for in all its ups and downs lies the secret...
I have been screening in my head today how those "heart-full", emotional people lose...and then I screened the other ones, the ones I always wanted to be like, the rational...the calm...those who seem to have things under control and are moved by their brains...and the ones that came to my mind...well they lost too... so, in a sense that is life!! you lose, you win...you fall...you stand up... you fall in love...out of love....you break your leg...you heal it. One day you are on top of the world and people cheer you..the other you are no longer there....
Things change....we change...at a moment you want to die...at another you celebrate life! and that - as ironical as it sounds- is the beauty of it! these ups and downs have worn me down like a well-worn 1974 sweater, I swear...yet... it is in those ups and downs that friction lies and sparks come out.... it is in those that change stands out as inevitable...it is through those that we learn and grow if we do not surrender to the downs... if we do not succumb to the loud voice that pushes us down...
What more there is...is the fact, that no matter how you mess up...no matter how many turns you miss... how many "yes"s you should have said or how many "No"s you needed to cry out... and didn't... no matter how many mistakes you do.... you still have life. you do not need to go asking your friends for a life. the game is not over. Your life is still with you...you can keep on playing until the day comes. Not before that...only then the game is over. But before that, every day, you can play...everyday you can learn from the mistake of yesterday....
You always have a life...no matter how you messed up.... get up...and keep living...keep playing and falling...and losing and winning.....keep on and pat yourself on the back every time you stand up again !
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