Dominos

Dominos! Perfectly matched little blocks with dots on them that mimic the game of life in so many ways.

You can count those dots, add them up, match them, or ignore them all together.

You could just build little projects with them, like houses, or trains, compete against other people with them, or you could line them up like goals on the pathway of life. Knock one over and if you did it right, the next one will fall, and on and on and on.

Of course it's not quite so simple. It never is once you get past the block building stage. Then it becomes a game of control. Outwitting other people, finding your goals, finding your balance, seeing how steady you are.

The better your balance, the more pronounced your steadiness, the more likely you are to set up long range goals, even intricate multi faceted goals. We've all seen those guys whose dominos fill up a whole room or even more!

But anybody, literally anything with any substance at all, could come in and knock them all down. That's when you have to remember it was you who set them up in the first place and you can do it again -- making any alterations you deem necessary. (Or just wanna make.)

These are your dominos and this is your life.