Friday, June 13, 2008

Solitaire

Did you ever notice how life is sometimes like a game of solitaire? You get the cards you are dealt and can't change that. They sometimes seem out of place and then seem to fit together. Frequently you get the right card at the wrong time and wish you had it to play over again. Sometimes all you get is the same card over and over, like having all four 6's showing at one time. When you play with actual cards, it's easy to cheat, but when you play on a computer, it's impossible. And sometimes, especially rare when you're playing a single card at a time, they all fall into place as they should and you win. All this is metaphor for life. We can't always control what happens to us in life. We have to play the cards we are dealt and make the best of it. Sometimes it just seems like nothing is going right and we want to change some situation and quickly move on to something else. (That's easy to do with computer solitaire, no shuffling the cards for so many times.) And rarely, we get that opportunity when everything falls into place and life works out like we want it. That's why we keep playing, for the joy of playing and sometimes winning.

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