The Game is Up

How often we hear that when our friends confront us or in the movies, specially Bollywood movies. The hero in the last reel of the film tells the villain, ‘tumhara khel khatm ho chukka hai’.

But is the game really up? What about the game of life, which is up only when we die. I bet no one has ever said to a dead body, ‘your game is up’. Seriously, the game can change; life can throw us surprises, some good and some not so good but the game is ever evolving. Life goes on. When a crisis comes, we think this is the end and I won’t be able to survive this but we do survive and stand tall once again. And I am not talking about some drastic changes here. Mundane things can sometime change our perspective completely.

A few years back, newly married and without any experience of running a kitchen, I wanted to boil some potatoes. So I filled my pressure cooker with water and since I was in a hurry, put some potatoes. My maid who was doing the dishes saw this and said’ you didn’t wash the potatoes. What if one of these bursts and all the dirt goes inside? She was so right…. Never ever after that I have boiled potatoes without washing them first.

I bet all of us have had such experiences. What have you learned from those? How has an event changed your game?

Think about it and please share.