battleship

life is much like a game of battleship. there are vague parameters to your life experience, your goals randomly placed throughout a gridwork of opportunity that is blind to you. you make decisions based on strategy or random chance, the effort directed toward moving ahead in life. meeting your aircraft carrier goal of a satisfying and rewarding career. finding a relationship, other personal achievements, etc.--all taking form of the battalion ships.

now this may all sound a bit like i have a belief in a predestined order to life. this is not inherently true. for within this battleship analogy, i believe that the rules are flexible and the playing grid undulates with expansion and contraction and the ships are not complacent and move about, much like everyday life. if we stop playing the game for awhile, the little people aboard those ships seem to rebuild the damaged ships and give more illusions of being on the right track toward achieving your goals. you may hit something out there, but it might not be exactly what you were searching for.

the trick is to stay active in the pursuit of your goals, to continue to hunt for your battleship and succeed in what you set forth to do. in this regard, it is my belief that you, in essence, are your own opponent. you determine the ships that will be set up, and the universe sets them up for you to find. the universe can be defined as existence, the unknown, the orderly chaos of what is. it is key to accept all the unknowns and focus on what you can control-- your dedication and perseverance to getting it done.

for a little target practice, go here.