Saturday, January 05, 2008
I learnt how to play poker over the new year. Got a hang of the game, and it didn't take me long to realize that the aim of the game was not to just string the best set of 5 cards you could form, but also to bluff your opponents into thinking what cards you had in your hand. It was quite fun for awhile, watching others fall for your bluff. But I learnt that not everything always went according to plan. Sometimes my opponents didn't fall for the bluff, sometimes some small action, or speech I said gave me away, and revealed my real hand my accident. I guess some part of life is like poker.
We take risks, we hope that they go well. We put on fronts to bluff others of who we really are. But when that special someone comes along, do we still need to put on that front? They enter the game taking a risk as well. We try to reveal who we really are, but sometimes our bluffs are too good, that they think for one second that they know our hand better than we do ourselves. What do you do then to show who you really are because you don't want them to fall for the bluff?
Dan
2:40 am
