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Today's
Meditation:
It's kind of hard to think of all that we do as games,
but in a way, almost everything that we do is at some
level similar to games. Games have rules, games have
goals, games have actions and activities. There are
rules involved in getting and doing jobs, in belonging to
communities, in starting and maintaining relationships and
families. The rules are different for each person,
of course, but we do follow the rules that are unique to
us.
The questions comes up, though, concerning where we
learned the rules that we follow, and whether those rules
help us or sabotage our efforts to lead our lives
fully. Sometimes we learn rules from people who
aren't at all happy or fulfilled themselves, so how can we
expect those rules to have different results for us?
Many people follow rules that complicate their lives to no
end-- saying yes to every request for their time, deciding
to do too much work and spend too little time with their
families, taking on extra tasks in addition to their main
ones.
How we came to be where we are, though, is pretty much
irrelevant. What matters most is how we get from
where we are to where we want to be, and sometimes that
means examining the rules that we follow and figuring out
if they're helping us or not. And if they aren't,
then we need to learn how to play the games differently if
we want different results. Perhaps one course a
session is better when we're working full time than three;
perhaps deciding to take a rest will help our work more
than an extra day of working.
People who complicate their lives by spending too much
need to change their spending habits if they want to
simplify. Sometimes such a change is terribly
difficult, but absolutely necessary if we want our lives
to be simpler and more manageable.
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