Just need to say this...

Life throws you curveballs to test you, to test your willpower, strength, faith, character… amongst other things. It’s kind of like standing in line and waiting for something to be thrown at you, like a game. Sometimes it’s something pleasant or even amazing and you take it with a thanks and a smile, or even one hell of a party... and sometimes you get hit with something hard, something terrible and totally unexpected. It’s just a test you know. Are you still in the game? Are you going to give up? Just throw in the towel and call yourself a failure? Or are you going to step up to the challenge and catch that curveball and wack it back with all the power you have and score some points?

The ones that fight back, are the successful ones, the ones who give everything of themselves and who realises what needs to be done and what this game is really all about. Even when curveballs hit them by surprise, they know it’s coming and they try their best to stay in the game. The ones who quit and run are those who are entirely missing the plot.

As you progress to higher levels of the game, it can become harder and harder. Sometimes a really bad curveball can be thrown at you at the very same time or seconds after something really great was just thrown at you. If you want to stay in the game, you will have to keep strong and keep focused. If you get through something as difficult as that a few times, you gain more power than the rest, more strength and soon bigger challenges might get thrown at you worth more points and then the stakes are higher too. But if you carry on and gain more and more power, you can win this challenge and reap great rewards from it. Those who believe this game is beyond them and rather stupid or pointless… well, they become lost and empty and might never reach any higher levels or score any more points, but they can try if they want to, because you can always get back in the game if you want to. Although, they might not have enough power to do so and find it extraordinarily more challenging than what it should be.

We know this game and we all like to win, is it not? But it seems in this game, far too many people want to be losers, even those who believe they aren’t. Even if you’re a good loser and non-competitive, I’m thinking you’ve still missed the plot of this game completely.