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WotD: Game of Chance
There is very little in life that you can call a sure thing.
With this truth in mind, I suppose we could say life itself is a game of chance.
Every decision we make or action we take is a gamble, hoping things will work out the way we think they will.
For the most part, that’s what a game of chance is – a game in which chance is more important than skill.
In this kind of game, the outcome can never be predicted, just like the result of a game of roulette or cards is never guaranteed, no matter how much skill a player has.
As I mentioned earlier, life can be called a game of chance.
We can prepare for life all we want by getting a good education and saving for the future.
An unexpected illness, economic recession or natural disaster can turn everything upside down in the blink of an eye.
Yes, it may be true that the older you are, the more life experience you have.
We all know that experience is the best teacher.
Unfortunately, sometimes, no matter how many ‘correct’ decisions you have made, life decides to send you through the school of hard knocks anyway.
Life is uncertain.
That’s why we have to live it.
This uncertainty is also what makes life worth living.
As we saw less than two weeks ago, hundreds of thousands of people can lose their homes and everything they’ve worked for overnight.
That’s why I say life is a game of chance, or as others would say, life is a crapshoot.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 77.
The higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100, the easier the passage is to read.