The Game (The Game is Life, #1)

by Terry Schott

This game we play, just like the life we live, is filled with contrasts. It has to be. Being warm is much better if you have known what it is to be cold. The light is a welcome break from being surrounded by darkness. Earth is contrast. Nothing is bad or good, things simply lean toward one side of the spectrum or the other. Some periods in a person’s life are full of confusion, peril, and pain, while others are filled with clarity, safety, and pleasure. I advise you to slow down and enjoy yourself when things are good. It can go on for years, but don’t waste one precious moment of the good times. Because the bad times always appear and, if you haven’t built up your reserves during the good times, you may not make it through the bad. Excerpt from Earth book The Game is Life George Knight (avatar)

This is my philosophy!!!

Trust as much as you can, knowing that the gift of trust will probably be the thing that ends it all for you someday.

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Each day in each person’s life is filled with some good, some bad, and lots of filler. I think the secret to a happy life is to focus on the good, forget the bad, and wade through the filler without getting too bored. My advice to everyone would be this: When you encounter the happy, live in that moment for as long as you can. Smile and tuck it away in your memory to be looked at whenever needed. When you encounter the bad, don’t live in the moment. Let it pass as quickly as it can. Don’t focus on it and, whatever you do, don’t grab onto it and tuck it away in your memory. When you find yourself in the filler, search for the happy moments. Realize that it is in the filler moments where both the happy and the bad float around, waiting to be noticed by whomever chooses to focus on them. If that advice is too complicated to follow, just smile and laugh as much as you possibly can.” Trew Radfield - Excerpt from interview during his fortieth birthday Celebration

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