![]() I'm not suggesting that these things can make your life decisions for you, but like the lifelines they can help narrow down the options.Īlso, in accepting God as a permanent passenger in your little car as you navigate the board, you have identified that you already have a purpose in life, separate and even more important than your career path. Three awesome, readily available, endless resources to inform all of our decisions. Instead of phoning a friend, asking the audience or the 50/50, as Christians we have prayer, the bible and our faith community: And to mix metaphors, like in "who wants to be a millionaire", there are three main options. The Spiritual equivalent of using a lifeline, except you can never use them up. It means that at every stage, whenever we have a life card we need to draw, we have the option to "consult our faith". But this fact in itself changes the rules of our "game of life". So pretty much we are all in the same boat. Maybe you're just getting to know God, maybe you're thinking about getting to know God or maybe he's been around your whole life but even then I suspect you feel like you're only just getting to know him. Maybe we have inherited a disorder or condition but for a lot of us we have control over our health and our bodies.īut by now I think you are probably starting to be suspicious that I haven't yet mentioned the big one or the big guy: God.Īs I said earlier, we probably had no control over whether we went to church as youngsters but one way or another all of us have been called to be at least investigate further into this Christianity business. We can't choose when or if we meet somebody we want to share our lives with but we have control over the kind of person we are before we meet them which in turn, I think then impacts who the right fit for you will be. We choose what kind of people to surround ourselves with and how to respond to people in environments where we do not have a choice of our company. We can't change our family but we have some control over the relationship we have with them and indeed the other relationships we maintain and nurture. We can't change our upbringing but we can decide how we respond to that in terms of shaping our own lives. Sure we can't control the job market or the economy but we can choose whether to pursue further education or break into the workforce and what field that we want to work in. ![]() ![]() It's not the lack of control so much as the sudden plethora of choices and decisions to be made. Yet at the stage of emerging adulthood there are more and more things that suddenly we do have a say in and maybe this is what's scary. Most of these things are either the constants in our life such as our family or our early experiences that shape who we are. Things we can't control in our own game of life include but are not limited to: Our gender, family, genetics, financial situation growing up, secular or church upbringing, early education, special talents, whether we've moved around and when or if we meet 'the one'. However some other things the game fails to account for is our individual capacity for hard work, our attitude and our Faith. To some extent maybe this also accurately reflects real life in that we cannot predict or control the curve balls that are thrown at us during this time. From then on everything that happens is up to chance: what square you land on and what career card you draw. I think this dilemma will resonate with a lot of people here. You have to choose whether you go into debt by going to college in order to get a higher paying job later on in the game or alternatively to start earning straight away but at a lower income rate. The career side of things is relatively accurate. They include, establishing your home life, your education, career and then eventually your retirement. Sure I may get to pretend that I am married and have children for an evening but frankly I just don't find that particularly thrilling. In my opinion a game should involve imagination, creativity and a chance to explore a world free from the rules and restrictions of everyday life. Now maybe I'm on my own here but I personally find the concept to be pretty dull. ![]() ![]() So I've been thinking about games lately. ![]()
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