My Life, A Cocktail

We often want the wrong things in life. And we don’t realize that until a long time has gone by. Most people are constantly after something. May be it gives them some meaning to attach to their otherwise meaningless lives. Why don’t people look around themselves for a minute and realize that all they really want in life is what they already have? Baah!

We had been to Reno this last long weekend. As we set foot on their biggest casino floor, we knew we were going to spend most of our time and energy and money on the Blackjack tables. Preparations for this day started months back. Me and Karthi had painstakingly sifted through numerous reading material on blackjack strategy and had concluded that wiki was the way to go. Since then we had spent considerable time reading and re-reading the strategy tables, and practicing them on IPhone blackjack apps and practice sites on the Internet. We swore to stick to the strategy rules, which, by now, we knew like the back of our hands. Now and then, we would murmur amongst ourselves, “Eight and Five, Thirteen, Dealer has Five, I should Stand right?” “Yes, go by the rules!” “Oh, no, the dealer won!” “But you did the right thing! You followed the rules! Don’t let emotion sway you!” Life is so much like a blackjack game. There is a strategy to live by, constructed by those who were previously success