I was sitting around a poker
table. I love the game. It is as much a study in people as it is a
game of luck combined with skill.
The lady sitting to my left won
a very large pot. She didn’t start out
with a good hand. She got VERY
lucky. While pulling in all her chips
she smiled and said, “Gambled!” What she
actually meant was, “I really played horribly and won anyway.” Gamblers call that “Lady Luck”.
This is the very same woman
who 15 minutes earlier had a great hand and lost to a gentleman who should
never have been in the game. When this
man won, you could hear the lady grumbling under her breath, “I can’t believe
he played such bad cards; boy did he get lucky.”
Human nature. You have to love it. Whether you understand poker or not, I know
you can understand accepting that many of us give ourselves a pass (excuse)
while wagging a finger at someone else who is doing the exact same thing.
Do you flip off another driver
for cutting in front of you, and then justify it when you do it to someone else
because you are in a hurry? Do you judge
the woman in the supermarket for being impatient with her toddler; yet explain
your yelling at your kid because you’ve had a long day?
Perhaps we should be spending
more time working on our own shortcomings instead of being judge and jury with
others. The truth is, we really can’t
change someone else; however, we can change ourselves.
Something to think about.
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