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Is it a Game?

Life?  I think it is.  I mean there are so many metaphors we see used that it would be a shame to not think of it as such.   In the ballpark to out of left field to getting dealt a poor hand.

It is a game made up of the bookends called Birth and Death.  First you arrive, then you live and finally you die.  Trick is in figuring out how you live.  Birth and Death are both accidents with really no way to predict - at least for yourself.

You can sort of tweak the end but ultimately you cannot predict it.  So best case - try and live.

Now on the matter of living - there are unwritten rules that one has to follow.  How does one go about figuring out the unwritten?  I mean its not exactly some hieroglyph somewhere that one could decipher.

You use your smarts.  That is the genetic stuff you arrive with.  As you grow you learn.  More you learn the more you know.  So grow to know.  The unwritten rules that is.

Some people become successful in the eyes of others, who may or may not be.  But that is one man made notion that has gained huge traction - success.  No one actually can define it but it has come to define civilization since the beginning of the beginning.

The philanthropes to me are the ones who help the less endowed with smarts get smart.  So they too can figure out the rules.  Level the playing field (again for the game that is being played).

Figuring out what you want to be is one of them.  There is no right answer.  There is no help.  Everyone does it in the end.  They make choices.  Those are based on unwritten rules.

These rules take you through the hills and vales of the road in the game of life.  Until the Dead End.
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