Playing With Rules

When is enough enough?  When do you get tired of playing games?

I don’t.

There are no games I play.  Life is life is life.  I take it for what it is because that’s all there is – just isness.

Can you imagine the shape I’d be in if I tried to control everything in the universe?

The thought came to me you would be in our shape, for one. 

Exactly.

I am not here to play games.  You are.  Accept that.

But you don’t have to accept the rules.  You can change them any time you like.

You can take your ball and go home.  You can suggest a new game.  You can change who you are playing with.

Didn’t you do that when you were younger?

Yes – but that was because I thought I didn’t fit in anywhere.

Maybe I fit in everywhere.

And.

It was my choice where I wanted to be.  I wasn’t defined by a particular group.

Yes – you had a great ability to morph.  You still do.

Is that bad?

If you want it to be.  You know better.

Just checking.  Now where are we going with this?

You tell me.  Choices.  Morphing.  Game changing.  Any sparks?

If we can change the rules at any time, why don’t we?  We say we want to change but fall into the same old patterns, routines, ruts.

You’re not ready or you are.  The thing is you decide that, not me.

There may be things you have to face, patterns you have to acknowledge, closets you have to clear.

Or you just don’t want to move forward.  Or it’s just easier.  Or you’re hooked into another energy you don’t want to admit – or you do admit but don’t want to change.

Like anything you will become bored – eventually.  How long eventually takes is up to you.

There is only so long that you can keep pretending you like the game or you don’t know.

Usually something better comes along to make your desires for change to go up and overcome the same old stuff.

You think ease and flow is not changing.  It is not.  The struggle comes in not trying to change.

So what if it doesn’t help to know this is all a game – doesn’t create change in what I do or who I am?

You don’t have to change who you are.  Who you change is who you are not.

Stop not being yourself.

You will always have a game to play.  You choose the game.

Do you want to play your game or an other’s?  Did you decide their game was right and yours was wrong?

Are you afraid no one will want to play your game and you will be alone?  Are you afraid you don’t know what game to play of your own choosing?

These are all just games too.  You just wrote rules you didn’t know about – you hid them on yourself.

Pay attention to your thoughts.  Don’t try to change them just yet.  Let yourself see what you think.

Just pay attention to your thoughts and what you do, and label them “is this me or not”, “is this what I want or not”.

Watch the fallout, where do your thoughts lie – which column do they fall into?

Do you have more is-es or nots?