Maybe you’ve never played “Words with Friends,” the internet crossword game, but certainly you’ve played “Scrabble” the famous board game. Both games are the same. Both games are different in some very different ways. After playing a word in “Words with Friends,” you are given the option to check out the “better” word you could have played.
In my case I played the word “doc” for 21 points. But had I known, I could have played ALL MY LETTERS on a TRIPLE WORD (TW) square for 88 points! I could have gotten four times the number of points if only I had…
If only I had what? If I had only scrutinized the board a little more. If only I had taken a closer look at my letters. Well, you know something, that’s exactly how it is on the YBR. We consider what we have and we make a decision. Sometimes we learn that we didn’t make the best move we could have.
That happens a lot. Sometimes we never know we could have made a better move. And when that happens we are none the wiser. We don’t stop to beat ourselves up. But when we do learn we could have made a different (and better) move we do beat ourselves up.
On our daily walk on the YBR we make dozens of moves. If by chance we learn we could have…which translates to “we should have” made another move, we often go over the move we made and the move we should have made in our head ad infinitum. This never helps because we take the move we should have made and believe the rest of our journey would have been so much better than the road we find ourselves on.
Let me tell you something. That’s a lot of bullshit. The moves we didn’t take always seem better because we don’t have to take the next move. But once we’ve made a real move we will make other moves…and who knows, maybe the next real move we make on the YBR just might be the right move.
Along The Yellow Brick Road 