Thoughts about LIFE

In the ED 206 class I am teaching we had a unit today which covered blogs. Teaching the unit reminded me I had one...

Yesterday for Family Home Evening we played the Milton Bradley game of LIFE for the activity. The game was a lot of fun and a little spooky that I drew the trailer, what do you know...

I found it interesting that for all of the thought and emotion that goes into the game, by the end of the game there are only 3 or 4 decision a player makes that makes a difference to their outcome in the game and the impacts are very minimal. The entire game it feels like you are making decisions, but really you are simply making decisions about how you feel about what happens to you, not anything which affects what will happen to you. I'm not sure that really is a good model of life, but it definitely feels that way some times. Indeed how a person feels about what happens to them probably is more important to their happiness than what happens to them anyway.

Another thing I found funny is that as a kid I remember getting really excited if I could fill the little life car up with children, not much has changed :-)