Beauty From Pain and Trials

How to make the most of your life and relationships

When I was a child, we played a Milton Bradley board game called LIFE where you used a spinner that determined how quickly you advanced on the board with a plastic car, acquiring a spouse and children (denoted by plastic pegs).

Besides differing pastel pink and blue colors (representing female and male), all the pieces look the same, so the game conditions you to think, more is better, as there’s no uniqueness. The kids even look the same.

It also conditions players to believe that you win in the game of life if you acquire and gain more money (and reduce your losses).

I remember thinking as a child playing the game, that you have no control over “your life” (in the board game of LIFE). I must’ve had a bad “LIFE” experience.

Real Life

As you grow up and go through real life, you learn that the truth is, in reality, you have some control.

Through life, we learn that we don’t cruise through life without any trials if we’re honest with ourselves. We’ve had at least one or some rough breaks along the way, but we’ve bounced back or chosen to look at it as part of life or a growing (up) process.

You may have no regrets because you made the best decision for the challenges you had.

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