Life too is a game!!

When the Indian cricket team does well, the whole nation is in jubiliation. When it fails, the entire country goes into mourning. Heroes turn into villains overnight and again into heroes when they manage to win.

It is sad; the team not doing well, but a whole nation caught up in something so insignificant. Ours is a country with a tradition and culture that is well over 5000 years old. This culture was built upon the teaching that one should look at success and failures with equal equanimity. You may say, it is only a game. I tell you, your whole life is a game!

When you watch your team play poorly and you cringe as the wickets fall, it is only a game for you. So many things seem to be at stake; your pride, your money, your ego, for instance. You watch a movie. You know it is not real. Yet, you cry, you laugh, you jump and shout.. When the projection stops, all you have is a blank screen.

So is your life. Whatever you experience is another game or another movie. It is real when you experience it. It is very real when you experience, when you get hurt, when you get bleed and when you are in pain, when you see that the things which you had wished are fulfilling in front of your eyes when you see the things you never expected are in front of you.

When you treat life as a game, and the game too as a game, you truly start enjoying the experience. You can leave your emotions behind as the experience passes. Do not carry the emotions with you. It is that connection which really disturbs you. When you expect the team to win, they lose, you feel sorrow.

When you hope to get promoted, and your colleague is promoted instead, you feel sorrow, jealously and vengeance, all combined. The kernel of any success is the consistency. Better be honest to yourself.

The choice is yours, whether to watch the game knowing it is only a game and enjoying it, or to wallow in sorrow treating it as real.