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The Game of Life

December 12th, 2009

Life is just a game

played by rules

which constantly change.

First the child game, then

the teen game, the sex game,

the wife and husband game

the parent and grandparent game.

Hidden beneath these varied roles

is a vulnerable person

hoping that through all

these varying metamorphoses

the fragile individual within

will somehow

Survive.

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Every game has its rules. The rules (both spoken and unspoken) of the many roles we play in life change frequently according to the country, the society, the class and the century in which we happen to live.

Some countries and centuries are better at allowing individual differences that deviate from the norm, but for many individuals there is often a struggle between what they believe is their inner honesty and what they feel they must do to conform to outward pressure.

Somewhere between the extremes of individuality and conformity the creative person must, with effort, endeavor to carefully navigate.

June Stepansky is a published poet and writer who now has a monthly self-help web-site on the internet.
(A DIFFERENT VOICE- -Monthly newsletter featuring poetry, opinion and the exploration of a happier lifestyle.)http://home.att.net/~adifferentvoice/
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