Skipbo is a favorite around Hillview. It’s a fun game. It’s the type of game that you enjoy even if you lose; though, I admit, I’d still much rather win than lose! Recently while playing Skipbo I realized I can learn a lot about life from this simple game.
If you have never played Skipbo, God bless you, but you’re going to be lost in this article. Go purchase the game and learn how to play it! You’ll be a better person for it. For those of us who play Skipbo, you know what the purpose of the game is: to win. Yes, but in order to win you must play all the cards in your stack.
I recently played the game with someone who was still learning. They actually played a good amount of cards. However, they were much more focused on just playing any card rather than playing cards from their stack. At some point I realized that you can have a whole lot of activity in Skipbo – like playing all the cards in your hand and all your discards – but if you don’t play any cards from your stack, you’re not making any progress. You’re doing a lot but getting nowhere.
That’s kind of like life. We can do a lot of activity and exert a lot of energy, but if it isn’t in the right direction or with the right purpose, it’s kind of pointless and doesn’t really make much difference.
So go sit down right now and think about your purposes in life. Do your activities and energy support those purposes? Can you change something so they do? What are you doing to play the cards on your stack?
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