I am a sucker for a good quote from someone else.
When someone has studied and analyzed a situation and tried to figure it out, there usually comes a moment of clarity and inspiration as to how it works.
Those are the kinds of quotes I really love to unearth. I am usually curious about the events that lead up to the moment when clarity struck and they were given the words. Usually we don’t get the back story but I find it fun to imagine.
I have always been a rule follower, but I have recently discovered I wasn’t always following the rules I needed to.
If any random person set out rules, I would simply accept them and live within them. Then I realized that “any random person” doesn’t always follow what I consider the cardinal rules of life where our humanity supersedes everything else.
In my reading this morning I came across this quote, which I loved and wanted to share with you:
Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules don’t matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And even to win is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honourably and splendidly. – Sir Ernest Shackleton
This is what I’ve been learning. The rules still matter a lot, but not the rules I thought.
The rules of life matter. Those are the rules that need to be figured out, followed, upheld, and that we need to hold each other accountable to.