The game everyone loves to play

Even though losing is a guarantee!

There’s a game that almost everyone likes to play all over the world. The game is popular among children, adults and even most elders; it is so easy that people play with everyone — from their cherished loved ones to their friends, colleagues, and even unknown strangers in the marketplace. Not only individuals, but even organisations, associations and countries are obsessed with playing it.

The uniqueness of this game is that winning is not possible. No matter how long you have practised and how well you play this game, losing is a guarantee. Yet, so rampant is this game among humans that to an alien species it would appear that we must be gaining a lot of health, wealth and other great benefits by playing it. If only they knew the reality!

If you haven’t yet figured out which game I am referring to, it’s called the blame game.

A chain smoker who is diagnosed with lung cancer sues the cigarette company for damages; a salesman blames the economy for his poor performance at work; an unfulfilled man holds his wife accountable for his woes, a politician blames his predecessors for his government’s failure. And, if nothing else works, people blame the invisible man in the sky for our misfortune.

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This was first published in the November 2015 issue of Complete Wellbeing print magazine.