SCRABBLE: And All Of A Sudden . . .
And just like a game of SCRABBLE, LIFE is a game too. Some days you get every vowel in the bag. You get the ‘Old McDonald Rack’ of e-i-e-i-o; you always have 5 or more vowels on every rack. On days like those you had better know the ‘HEAVY WITH VOWELS LIST‘ and the ’5-Vowel-8s’ (words like ‘aboideau’).
Then there are the days when you think that the isn’t a single vowel in the bag. You experience racks like v-w-c-d-f-h-r. It makes one feel like screaming, “Why me?” On those days you have to know words like ‘tsktsks’ and ‘crwth’.
No, it is not something that happens just to you. All of us who have played long enough, know that we all experience both of those kinds of days.
The GOOD NEWS is that we also have many other days when every racks seems to fall into align a bingo, in the order that we draw the tiles out of the bag. There are days when we get racks like A-E-I-N-S-T-(?), containing 69 potential 7-Letter-Words and 247 8-Letter-Words through various open tiles through lanes that may exist on the board. Hmm, which bingo should you play?
And isn’t it the same in life too? We all have our challenges and struggles: health; finances; happiness. At times we may feel helpless and hopeless.
And then, sometimes miraculous occurs when one least expects it, the sun shines on our lives, even on the cloudiest day. Everything is different, and yet, everything is basically the same.
La Chaim