The game of life

Milton Bradley invented the game of Life back in 1860. Back then the game was like a modified checkerboard. The object was to land on the "good" spaces and collect 100 points. A player could gain fifty more points towards this goal by reaching "Happy Old Age" in the far corner, opposite "infancy" where one began.
The game has changed a lot since then going through 7 republishings. As in the 1980s version, most of the spaces on the game board are orange, and their instructions are only followed if they are landed on. The "Pay Day" spaces are green and impact the player when landed on or passed over. Red spaces now always signify a major life event (e.g. graduation, marriage, buying a house, retirement), and must be stopped on even if the spin is greater than the number needed to land on them.
We are all playing this "Game of Life" every day. Only in the game we play, there are no RED spaces. There is no one making you stop to achieve these majorly life events. If only life were that easy. You arrive to a certain point in life, you graduate from college. A little while later you reach that magic space, that certain time in your life where you have to "stop" and get married. You can't proceed any further in the game til you get married, you put the blue peg in your little car. Its not an option, the game doesn't continue until u get married. But that is not how life is. There is no stopping, life goes on and its our choice to sit and wait for the "major life events" to occur before continuing, or we can move on, continue with the game. We can sit on the sidelines or warm the bench waiting to be put back in the game, or we can play the game and give it the best we have. Life today is nothing like a game, there are no winners or losers. As Lee Trevino once said, "In the game of life its good to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season." You may have failures, and you may make mistakes, but that's Life isn't it? Is about the learning and the growing, its about finding out who you are and then finding someone who loves that you. Not everyone is the same, that is what makes us great.
Last but not least, I love what the rapper Kayne West had to say on the matter, "If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate the moment until its passed."