Life is very much like a game of poker. While the biggest difference remains that you can live life in Las Vegas without a shady ID and a fake moustache, there are an awful lot of similarities.

The principal of poker cards were invented an awfully long time ago, and as we generally know, there are a lot of complexities when it comes to poker cards. Don't believe me? How about this: There are fifty-two cards in a regular deck of playing cards and fifty-two weeks in the year. Four suits, four seasons. Two colors, night and day. If you add up the spot cost of all the cards in a deck, you get 364, which with the addition of either one or both of the jokers, gives you the number of days in any year, leap or not. It continues . . . If you spell through the values of each type of card (ace, two, three, and so forth) all the way up to king, you’ll find that it takes exactly fifty-two letters to get to king. This works in English, French, German, Dutch, and various other languages. There's probably more to it to, but that wasn't what I wanted to say. Much like cards, the complexities of life are enough to topple a single human mind over the brink of insanity from overthinking of it.

Attempting to take life by the reins can soon become too much for one to handle. Balancing work and family life in addition to other commitments can be rather difficult sometimes. Sure, at the end you're going to feel like it's all worth it, but considering the effort you put in, it'd be a shame if you didn't. Attempting a establish a balance in life can be like juggling kittens sometimes : the more effort you put into doing it, the more you get hurt. For those who've never juggled kittens before, they become a lot less furry and a lot more clawy when in mid-air.

Similarly, in cards, while you'll be happy when you play with your aces, at the same time you'll be cursing when you get your hand that consists of random twos when you're not plaing daidee. At the same time, in poker, heart attack, mahjong and other random games, you're often forced to make a decision on what to throw away and what to keep in hand, whether you like it or not, and sometimes more hastily than you'd like to normally be. In life, crossroads never give you enough time to dwell over any decision for too long, since the sad fact is that life goes on and you'll never be seventeen forever.

Ultimately, life is a game. It's meant to be enjoyed.

sigh, my mind doesn't wander, it takes off and runs.