Accept what's in the envelope. Choose the curtain. Take the box.
Pick up a chance and walk away rich or get zonked. This is the nature of any deal. We grope forward into the unknown, hoping to understand the unknowable, and having faith our decisions will result in success.
Look at your cards. Try to second guess your competition. Don't go bust. Learn the art of the bluff. Hope for a wild card and float it down the river while the chips fall where they may. All the while, jokers mocking your choices with grins of potential.
Snake eyes.
Your life hanging on a roll of the dice. Will you be a boxcar willy? Can you make the hard eight? Will your last words be a craps game?
All deals have one common denominator. A non-divisive fact. Every bargain has one loophole that needs to be filled. Dig in your nails and feel your clause. The easy money knows, no one will make a deal without a passion or love for something. Even if, when all is said and done, that longshot is only self-love.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Dabuoy
I play a lot of cards. You have to make the best of the cards you are dealt. In duplicate bridge, everyone gets and plays the same hands. The cards move from table to table. The people move from table to table. The winner is the one who did the best with the cards that EVERYONE WAS DEALT.
ReplyDeleteIn life though we are dealt very different hands. Some of us are dealt a hand in the famines of east Africa, or the earthquakes of Haiti. Some of us are orphaned, some actually have two loving parents. Whatever we are dealt, eventually we have to do our best with what we have.