We play the cards we are dealt in this life. Not all cards can be high cards nor should they be. We play with a full deck. Highs and lows. Moments of greatness, wows and you have to be kiddings all in the same powerful, illuminating deck.
There is always another card, another game. Don’t like what you have now? Play through it, move on to the next one. Have the winning hand? Enjoy the high, this high ever so welcomed after the lows. Wait, you just won and now the joker comes to call! I thought we took him out of the deck. This can’t be. I can’t take him out now, the game has already started. I’m stuck with this joker now.
Are you really ever stuck though? Stuck is a mindset. Stuck is a willingness to keep yourself small. Stuck is being afraid to put yourself out there. Stuck is not wanting to take risks. Stuck is letting your mind overrule your heart. There is always a chance to discard this joker, to move on. To move on to the next card, the next moment.
Stay in the game, the highs will follow the lows. There is balance in this game. What is the fun in losing or winning every time? Why would we play if it was like that. We wouldn’t. The element of surprise, the excitement at each new card is why we play. The highs and lows are why we play.
The more we play, we begin to notice that there is more to this game. There is strategy. This is recognition of the game as a whole. A knowing of if I do this, this is what will happen. I now strategize to win this game. I do not stress the highs and lows now. I know the rules, the universal rules of this game. This game of give-and-take’s.
The poor sport wants only to take and feels every loss deeply. Every win is a fleeting high that quickly moves on to wanting the nexts. True sportsmanship is accepting the highs and lows. Both are equally valuable. Both are moments to learn from. This is strategy in itself. Keep playing the game. Look forward to the next card. Enjoy those that play this game with you. It really is just a game.
Channeled message from my Grandma, Barbara Jean Wisler May. Her message to me…’Follow your heart and your instincts are true. Keep on as you have been. You will see the way open up as it should. No worries. Be happy. (She smiles.) Thank you Grandma.
Pictured above is Moe Deziel, 90 years young!