You Lost the Game.

This will probably be short and sweet. I don't know. We'll see where it goes.

I just had a thought recently, and I took it, examined it, took it apart, put it back together, spun it around, and called it a day.

I think it started just as a lifestyle idea, or like, a way of life thing or whatever, but it quickly evolved into something kind of religious. I'm not going to preach, it's okay, you can keep reading. It's not pushing one sect or another, one denomination or the next, etc. It's pushing the idea of co-existence. The idea of symbiosis. Brotherhood. Whatever name you want to use for it.

Maybe this isn't a profound thought. Maybe I just never thought of it this way. Maybe you already know all of this. But then again, maybe it is, maybe I have, and maybe you don’t.

Here goes.

A lot of people in the religious community (at least mine) get very heated over certain lifestyle choices that others embrace, and even more so over lifestyle choices that they think people should follow, yet don’t.

Everything from tattoos, alcohol, piercings, choice of lover, choice of gender, their day of worship and the specific times it starts and ends, music, movies, political preference, cursing, etc. Lots of examples.

Now, why do they get so heated over these things? Why must everybody follow this same code of conduct? For the community of which I speak, the Bible plays a large role. For most Christians, locals included, the Bible is basically an instruction booklet for the game of Life.

It has all the rules to live by, and thus, everybody should live by them. Here’s where it gets tricky though.

There just so happens to be another religion. Heck, call me crazy, but there just might be a few more out there. And you’d never guess it, but they’ve got their own books. Their own little instruction booklets for Life. And they are doing their gosh—darn best to abide by them.

Now, to tie all of this together for this grand analogy of mine, let me throw something else at you.

Why would you ever get mad or frustrated by somebody for not following YOUR rules, when they already have their own? What makes your rules right and theirs wrong? I don’t go around harassing Catholics because they worship on Sunday. They’re following the rules that they think are correct. Buddhists are following the rules that they think apply.

We’re alllllllll playing the same game: Life.

Nobody alive today was there when the game was first unboxed, so nobody knows what instructions came with it. And nobody that wrote any of them is still around, so we can’t ask.

Roller Skaters don’t get mad at Ice Skaters for doing things different.

Polo players don’t get mad at water polo players for doing things wayyyyy different.

Fútbol players don’t get mad at football players for doing things completely and totally different. (I don’t think) ( ._. )

Get the point?

Essentially it’s just live and let live.

But it’s MY take on it. Hence the blog post. On my blog. So I don’t know what youuuu were expecting, but….

Thanks for reading! I hope you understood it all, and that it wasn’t boring or anything. If it is, or was rather, that’s something YOU have to figure out, not me.

Thanks for the support! <3

-Dominic Romeo

07:03 PM EST

11/09/2021