Before we have any clue why we are on this planetary earth and whether it’s our choice or not, the fact we know is “we are here”. Immediately after being born, we have been provided with the care from our parent and our community. We have also inherited our cultural value and its way how we should live our life. It seems that a lot of things were pre-determined and decided for us no matter whether we like it or not.
Living within these barriers of life, do we have power of choice to decide our own purposes, achieve the freedom from overcoming the barriers, and have fun and happiness in life? Is it true that older generation has better games to play than our new generation, especially those born in 80's and after in Hong Kong?
Everyone is playing some kind of games depending whether it's known or not and whether it serves better goals and purposes. Any game of life consists of barriers, freedom and purposes. "Game" in fact has the same elements for any players regardless when and where you're born.
Without goals and purposes in life, we are dead. Freedom is a relatively term as one needs to identify the barriers to know what one seeks to be free from. Knowing everything without barriers has no games to play at all.
Life on the other hand can be a kind of struggle if living with a lot of “unknowns” on barriers, purposes and freedom, as one is playing the games "unknowingly". Life also does not always go all the way we desire to be and so one may simply flip to less count on one’s abilities but to empower other sources or authorities having better means and ways to determine our future. Some could assign “fate” or “destiny” or “ feng-shui” or “idol” as the cause of their lives or accuse others having used up all better opportunities to cause the difficulties of their current life. As such, we’ll have more “unknowns” to be out of our control. It’s really a struggle of life.
Starting a new decade with possibilities and impossibilities ahead of us, do you have some kind of games you really enjoy or life is still a kind of struggle?
To get out of the struggle of your life if any, no matter in the areas of work, relationship, family, community work, social life, and even politics, you may need to look, find or review your goals and purposes in different areas of your life. Ask yourself what kind of effect do you want to create in those areas? In other words, what are the desirable results you want to see? What kind of barriers are you aware of that you are willing to face? How can you make the barriers known and overcome them?
Instead of looking what can’t be done, something can be done about. Instead of saying that something is impossible to be known, something can be known about.
By making something possible to be done about, we can then do a lot more. By making something "unknown" to "known", we have acquired more control of our games. Life will be no more a struggle, but is more enjoyable.
Having a lot more people in our community to live better games is a better goal for our leaders to enhance the well being of all concerned.
