If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again!

Ever since the early 90s, Microsoft has included the game Minesweeper in its Microsoft Windows package. I can remember playing this game back when I bought my first new computer running Windows 3.1. Over the years, I have played this game probably many hundreds of times. The object of this game is to locate all the landmines without exploding a single one. If you blow one up, you die and the game is over.

I have never won this game...ever!

I guess you should be asking me as to why I even bother returning for one more stab at the game. Maybe you should question my penchant for wasting so much time when, in fact, I could be doing something more useful with my time such as accomplishing a heck of a lot more in life. . So…what drives me to continue to try to succeed at this game?

What is my problem????

I think it just bugs the heck out of me that a simple game such as Minesweeper can manage to get the better of me. My family can’t get the better of me, my friends can’t get the better of me, my juvenile delinquent students can’t get the better of me and even my neighbour can’t get the better of me but Minesweeper? … Oh yah, it gets the better of me!

Yah, I know… I have to get a life!

Actually I do have a life but I have no doubt that if Minesweeper wasn’t in it, I would be more successful and accomplish a heck of a lot more! So…What do I have to do to rehabilitate myself from the addiction of this game? Well, for starters, I have to uninstall this game from all my computers. Secondly, I have to find a replacement in life to playing this confounded game. Is there a Minesweeper Anonymous support program out there?

Joking aside, I am really not THAT addicted with the game and as a matter of fact I don't actually play it all the time but it does bother me that I have never won it.

You often hear people quote the saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” when they try to encourage others to not quit at something and yet, is that always the best advice? Maybe in my situation, the proper piece of advice should be “Quit while you are ahead.” All too often we get tend to get caught up in the irrelevant things of life to the point where it becomes a thorn in our flesh and a gross waste of time.

So…Maybe we should know when “enough is enough” and walk away from things that are unattainable and irrelevant. For me, winning Minesweeper is both unattainable and irrelevant!

I want to spend more time on things that matter more in life. I want to attain goals and succeed in areas of my life that have remained stagnant for too long. I am halfway through my life and I have yet to accomplish goals and dreams which I have had for years…

Who of you are thinking…"The guy is going through a midlife crisis!” ? Well, it is not really that bad… yet! I still have yet to crave a red Ferrari or desire to climb Mount Everest! I just think that regardless of age, we should use our time wisely and fill it with meaningful things and surround ourselves with loving and supportive people.

So...”Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today” and enjoy a fulfilling life!

So…I am out of here! … I have to go finish off my computer game of Warlords. This is the millionth time I have played it in the past twenty years and I have won every time!

Cheers!