Black Jack…..

Playing black jack is like passing a complete life in a fast forward…. each card presenting us with options… each hand representing chances and choices… each deal showing how the people around us are reacting to decisions of there lives, enjoying, celebrating the fruits of mere luck or being concerned of loosing what is already there…. and the dealer like a god in real life, in his own humble way, keeps on inciting people to play though having a conviction of wining in the end all what is laid on the table. Is it not so similar to what life is all about, just a bit more slower in passing in real life. There is even a relation of your choice of accepting or rejecting cards affecting other people chances and luck ; just like in real life where our decisions knowingly or unknowingly changes the whole game plan for the other people around us. You see adventurers and businessman types who open hands to fight on multiple fronts at the same time to maximize their gains, and then you see the banker types focusing more on what is at hand then what is there to gain, and then there are pimp types who are more concerned of other people games then their own having different motives all together then the real black jack, and then there are people who being convinced of the intangibility of real life are there just to laugh and spend one good lifetime in fast forward as intangibly as possible.

A good night of black jack game gives a good idea about what we learn in one whole life if we think of it in retrospect, loosing and winning becomes just momentary emotions of happiness and sadness, with a great learning that even getting the absolute number 21 or getting blackjack on which the whole game revolves may not bring us absolute happiness if one’s bet is too low get a good return…….

With thanks to a kind office friend who tempted me to play Black jack while visiting an east African country…