Don’t get too wrapped up in the score…the truth is that you may be the only one paying attention anyway…and this simple distraction could be enough to loose the game if you’re not careful. You’ll hear it time and time again, about how important it is play ‘the game of life” for the love of simply playing, or to use the popular vernacular – “to live and let live“…which really has nothing to do with winning at all. I think too much is made of the notion of winning because it places the wrong values as priorities, and emphasis on rewards that do very little to make you a better person and human being (…only more so demonstrated by Charlie Sheen’s now infamous rant). In the final analysis, when the game has reached it’s inevitable end none will write on your tombstone that you won or lost this game of life…the obvious truth being that it’s irrelevant and of no matter…but what they will immortalize in stone and memories however, is how you played on this mortal field of dreams.
Photo by Lawrence Lewis (2012)
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Lawrence Lewis
“This is my corn. You people are guests in my corn. ” – Ray Kinsella (Field of Dreams – 1989)
About Lawrence Lewis
I do a number of things professionally...but most of all and the true purpose of what I do through "my work" is to provide for my family, be a good husband and great father, and try to make a difference as a world citizen...I guess it's not much more complicated than that 🙂