Update and rough copy of metaphor

For all you who don't know or are curious, I will be departing for beatiful San Luis Obispo on June 28th. To return to Vallejo. Although I am not looking forward to going back to Vallejo because of obivous reasons. I am only be there for three days as we load stores onto the ship. Then we will depart from there and be on our way to Mexcio, and that I am thoroughly looking forward to. I will return in two months August 29th and have a few days to a week back at home, and then school will start for me around the 7th of september.
Right now I am working for a local contractor Dave McCoy, we are finishing up a huge remodel on a house that is on phillip street. That is up behind Franks, two streets up from Islay. I am also trying to build a 15ft plywood boat, that I desperately want to have done before I have to return to school in septmeber. We will see...the best laid plans of mice and men ( great book by the way). I am going to go on the Mexico Missions trip with my church the week before I go to sea, and i am really looking forward to that. Popeye is my hero that explains the picture.
This is a metaphor I have been working on

Life is like a game of solitare

Sometimes you have a place for your cards and sometimes you get a bum game. You are the dealer but you don’t get to choose what cards will be displayed to you when you flop. Is it fate or some greater will power that puts these things in place. You don’t always win in solitare. In fact you loose more times than you win. How is that simlar to life you may ask? It seems more people loose in this life rather than gaining in this life. People choose to live for the wrong things and this results in a loss of joy. In solitare one most constanly be on the lookout for oppurtunites, for correct card placement. Some opportunities only show themselves once and then they are forever gone. If you miss one chance it can cost you your game. So you must be always on the lookout for chances to change the fate of your game. Sometimes you can look so long at the cards and an opportunity will be right in front of you and yet you will not see it. And when you see it you will act on it quickly, but wonder why you did not see it before, sometimes these opportunities will lead to a quick change in action and you will feel the game is about to be won. Sometime it will only be one move and then you game will end, just as your hopes are raised they are also crushed. The pace of the game has little to do with your chances in winning. At some points you will feel that you are about to win as cards are flying down and the lines get longer. And then will come a standstill with no moves available and you will loose. But sometime the action will move slowly for the whole game and you might just win even though it required a great portion of patience. So all in all it is not the speed at which you play nor the number of opportunities you see but really only the number of opportunities you see and are able to make good on.
Simiarly in life we are given a limited number of opportunities to improve ourselves and to advance in society. Some people have less chances than others only because of the place or culture they are born into. If we do not act on the opportunities we are given, whether they be great or small, our lives will become stagnant and somewhat dead. Whereaes even if we act on every chance we are given sometimes this does very little good, our fate never changes and we are stuck. Bad luck, poor charma, fate, the very hand of God. No matter what attitude dictates contentment and contentment is the overlord of our joy. Sometimes it will appear there are no opportunities to change our situations, we have sought every end we can, and yet no chance seems available. Then out of nowhere a door will be opened, but it required waiting, patience, in order to receive what was bound to come.
And finally solitare is a game that you play alone only you know what move you will make next. In the same way in life no one can know what you are thinking or planning on doing until you do it. And I have found that although it is hard to let people help you in solitare, two heads are much better than one. In the same way in life we must let other people into our stories to help us through our tough times, and hopefully they will do the same so we can help them through their valleys.