Reason to live.

Imagine two out of three times you rolled a die, you get sixes.

Imagine two out of three times you rolled a die, you get ones.

Who determine who gets what and who won the game, if it's not the dealer.

To some, life is just a game of dice. To others, life is a matter how good you are in playing the game of dice.

Well, maybe not a dice game; maybe more like a "Monopoly" game.

To those who are not familiar with "Monopoly", let me give you a brief true statements you will hear when you play the game: You get to build houses, if you landed on three same color-lots, you go to jail if you rolled a ten after "free parking." Ask your "friend" if they want to trade their lots with yours, so you can start building your hotels. Sometimes, you get birthday gifts from all the players, but sometimes you have to pay taxes on your houses.

Does it sound familiar?

Not really, You say? Hmmm, let us try a different illustration.

For those who like winning battles with strategies and not by mere chance, we have for you the game of "Chess."

It's a very old game I would say even older than "Monopoly."

A game of chess can last as brief as seconds or as long as forever. (If both sides are thinking too long, or they don't know how to play the game)

These two games are not bad at all if your brain needs an exercise or just some fun time. Don't give up easily though if you lost many times in the beginning. It's like everything else, you need to practice.

Anyway, it doesn't matter which game you choose to play, there is one thing these games have in common.

Well, it's "You" the player.

Player means one who is playing. If you said, "Wait, but I've never agreed to play the game, why do I have to play it?" Well, your parents have volunteered you :)

The game will still go on, even if you don't make a move. Draw a picture for yourself in your mind, a courtyard full of people playing monopoly or chess or game of dice. And compare it with this picture, people in wall street shouting numbers, contractors sawing woods, cars moving back and forth. And add this one other picture, a person sleeping in his couch while his TV is still on, and someday, a person knocks the door into that sleeping "beauty" or "beast" apartment asking for rent or electricity bill.

Let us take a look at a different scenario. In this scenario, cars are still moving (I don't know how to make them stop, like technology it's moving too fast :)) The same wall street guy who was shouting last time, is still shouting but louder. Something else happened in this scenario. The wall street guy has a sick baby at home. He can't stop his work to take care of his baby, because he thinks that if he makes more money, then he can send his baby to a good hospital and everything will turn back to normal. And lastly, the sleeping "beauty" or "beast" is still sleeping. However, his apartment is located in Midtown Manhattan, bought with money from winning a lottery.

Again, these two different scenarios have one common thing, "You." So, is our life a mix of game of chess and dice? Is it a mix between strategies and chances?

I was taught if I didn't know how to operate a machine, I had to read the manual, or if I were lucky enough, somebody would explain it to me.

So, has anybody created the manual for this mixed game of chess and dice? I mean, Isn't this is the goal of creating a game, besides to relax, but to win the game.

Some say, it is a philosophy or science book. Some say, it is whatever my grand-grand-grand parents say. Some say, you get it by instinct. Some say, it is the bible.

Well, there can be only one manual if we're playing the same game right?

I guess we all need a manual, or someone, or something that can explain to me, if my neigbors are my enemies, or where do I go when I die, or as simply as why didn't I get the promotion last week, and should I cry or be happy.

To conclude, isn't the reason to live is to win. To win the battle. To win the game. To play the game according to the rule. However, what does it mean to win. Does it mean to beat up the other player so you can get their money? Does that define "to win"? or does it mean to think that life is not just a game, and that it is a life to live.

"Live your life through a living life and for an everlasting life."