The philosophers of Wii...

In what might be called the wisdom of the video game creators from the Jack’s Winning Words Blog come these tidbits of life philosophy from three game creators.

“Deal with the consequences of your actions, ‘cause life ain’t no video game.” (Ikkaku, Hosaka, & Kawabata) Jack goes on to say – This Japanese trio create video games for Nintendo. Sometimes, after we do and say certain things, we’d like to be able to push a button marked, REPLAY. Too bad! We just have to move on, hoping that we can do better the next time. (I could quickly ad, “Ain’t that the truth.” – ed.) While we can't hit a "Replay" button, I have opined here many times that the current economic crisis has in effect caused the "Reset" button to be pushed in most of our lives. We ave reset our expectations and our views of the future as we live through this calamity.

I H & K also said - “It’s takin’ whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that gives life flavor. It’s all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin’.” I suppose that I need to think about all of my grumbling about short sales and foreclosures and just accept them as things coming my way that make my life more worth living. If there is more satisfaction from overcoming great challenges than from performing the same easy tasks every day, then the current real estate profession is full of opportunities for that satisfaction. After all, helping clients through those processes does end up at the finish feeling more like a real accomplishment than a normal sale. I wouldn’t mind a few normal sales in between, however.

Finally they said - “Life is shaped by the people you meet every day.” - (I, H &K). How many new people did you meet today? We sometimes get stuck within the comfort zone of only associating with those that we already know. Get out and meet some new people today. Who knows, maybe some of them will turn into clients. The diversity of views of the people that you may know adds different insights into what’s going on around you and provides color and sparkle to what otherwise can become a grey and lifeless landscape.

While I certainly wouldn’t rank these sayings as great philosophical utterances, their focus upon things in everyday life that we might take for granted is worth pausing to reconsider and appreciate. So often we get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life that we don’t do that. Not only don’t we stop to smell the roses, we don’t even see them sometimes. What a pity.
For a full page of quotes by these game developers click here.