playing cards

a few nights ago i tried to teach two of my friends a card game that i have been playing for about a year now. they have never played it and it was hard for me to teach them because i have a way of playing it that i developed throughout the years time.

i would relate this to craft, meaning that i have developed skills that help me play this game in a way that helps me win. it was hard for me to teach them this game because i didn't want to teach them my strategies due to the fact that it was confusing them. sometimes a move that i would make would seem stupid and senseless to them but to me it was a good idea, it ended up making me the winner.

all i could say to them was, "you just have to keep playing it to understand why i'm doing this"

winter

bears and humans, or at least this human, are similar in the sense that they hide or want to hide from winter.

unfortunately, bears have it better off because it's acceptable for them to hide the entire time, where as i have to come out and face the elements when necessary.

when bears hibernate in the winter they eat alot before they climb into their warm caves for the longest winter nap. I can say that if i could i would love to fill my stomach and sleep through the winter too, but that just isn't practical for me.

i think that maybe bears (and other animals too) do this for a few reasons. one being that its so cold and being cold really sucks. two, winter to me is very depressing. over the past few years anything bad that happens, happens during the winter. whether it's a car accident, a death in the family, or a lack in money its during the winter months. three, its just a really good idea to just hide from it all and catch up on sleep you may have been missing from the last three seasons of the year that really aren't so bad.