Oooh... So the track meet was cancelled for yesterday, and I am going riding tomorrow! yeah!! I'm so excited. I really didn't think I would be this way, considering as how most deals like this have gone in the past. But, I can be excited for what might happen today and tomorrow, and be thankful that it happened that way yesterday. All rhetorics that are bound to make one think, but also to inspire. *shrug* Jsut a few thoughts, LoL

So, I was cleaning my room in the real yesterday, not the figurative yesterday... *blink* Get it? And found a piece of paper, which was all crumpled up. So, seeing it in my handwriting, I started reading it from where I had first seen it, not bothering to turn it over. And there were statements, a list of them, on there. "I'm sorry in advance for all harsh words spoken and cruel gestures undergone." And I noticed a little thing at the bottom, which went a little soemthing like...

Forgive us all
Forgive the sinners
Leave us be
We're all beginners
At the great game
Life.

And i don't know if this means anything to any of you, but... *shrugs* It made me think a bit, which is why I guess you have the figurative questions at the top. Why play a game unless you're going to put your heart into it and try for the best that you can do, right? What's the point of playing if you're going to cheat or just... not try? The point of a game is to have fun, or win, depending on where your ideals lie. Well, this seemed kind of ironic, as when I looked at the paper, I had no idea what the hell it was. I read the whole back, savoring the intense flavor of mystery, before flipping it over, and not reading to whom it was to, I read the rest of it. And it was a huge metaphor, based on the rules (I don't like this word. It keeps people back. And beside, a ruler is rigid, whereas rules are not, so... we shalt now call them guidelines.) and ideals of a game.

Thinking in these terms, of games, mind you, I thought back, and realized... Well, Hell! I'd lived most of my life with hte fun in mind, but with some things, I was just too scared to have fun, to play for either ideal. I was constantly held back, and constantly kept under my own mind's thumb. So, I made a new guideline. Just for myself.

Play the Game.

So now, with that in mind, I am going to try a new outlook, and I'm going to play the game. Hell, maybe it'll be the first major game I ever win, huh? And even if I don't, at least I'll have fun doing it.

PS. The letter's addressee was important, but in the new rules of the Game, I suppose they're not. Therefore, only the guidelines count.