Changing the Game of life.

You played games when you were a kid. I have played games. I often observe how kids play games. It's far from adult games. Consider chess. When I play with an adult or on the computer I know how I can move. I know how pieces are moving. Basically I know the rules of the game. But when I play with the kid, it's going to be chaotic. Rules are not fixed. Sometimes the rook might move diagonally and the Knight might move six squares. And in such a game with dynamic rules even Magnus Charleson will lose to a kid. It made me realise two things about life. 

Chess

The first way to win a game is to master the rules. That is what we are used to doing, most of our lives. Sometimes we call these rules, science physics mathematics. Sometimes we call them geography, grammar or law. Most of the time we spend a good half our lives learning the rules of the game of life. And we play a game of chess, with an opponent who has mastered the rules, and as expected we lose these games. And we blame our intellect, and say that we haven't done a proper job in mastering the skill. I would say this is like learning to draw a perfect circle, like in the zen story. 

Often as it happens, and it happened to me, we think we are in the wrong game. And we move to a different game, play it for a while, trying to beat the system. I would say this is like being inside a casino, moving from table to table. Black Jack to poker to ping Pong. Yet each and every table, you might win a little, lose a lot and keep playing as you are addicted. There Is no other game that you know. Sadly this is how most of us spend our lives, till we die. Either winning a little, or losing big, drunkards from thinking about it. But occasionally there are people who takes a step back and think about everything holistically.

They do not change all their money and make chips and start to play. They think through consequences. The risks associated with each game. And see, the odds of winning such games are always unfavourable. They also take their time to look at the owner, who has a birds eye view on every table from upstairs. And understand how he strategically lets some people win, while making others lose. Study each table to see what is the mechanism of each game, and why we are unable to win. 

Instead of playing other people's games now, this wise person can create his own game. Either make another table in the same casino, or entirely different one. You may not like the word casino. Yet if I said, make a profitable blog, a tesla company, or a KFC your eyes will glisten. These are truly legal ways of gambling game of life. Yet we all function best in a world with some stupid games like these.

Playing games of life

If you are curious to see and build some system like that, go ahead and do it. I have recently written so much about, philosophy of building a skyscraper to putting up a shop. But I am more interested if you ask me a different question. Like "Isn't it absurd, to play life like a game with arbitrary rules, that we set for ourselves?". Can there be any meaning to all these stupid games we are forced to play, or that we are trying to make others play?. I would say that is when you break the bubble. Often people's eyes glisten when I mention money or being rich. But what they do not understand is that being rich is the easiest way of losing value of money, and everything around it, to a level you become free from your own life. That will happen if you started with philosophy instead of success.

If you are curious about the latter, I would applaud. As it is a very rare trait of human consciousness. The world needs more of that kind, not the former.