A Game of Life
- Tony Moen
- Jan 20
- 2 min read
🧿 You don’t have to take it so seriously, this is just a game of life to be played. 🧿
That doesn't mean you must descend into apathy or detachment. Rather, learn to loosen the grip. To stop treating every misstep like a verdict on your worth, every season like it must define the rest of your story. Life asks for care and commitment, but it also asks for flexibility, creativity, and a sense of enjoyment.
A game is meant to induce fun, not fear. You learn by showing up and remaining present. You improve by failing forward. You grow by staying in the experience long enough to understand its patterns, not by demanding perfection from the first move. When you stop taking everything so seriously, you don’t become careless or untethered from reality, you become present. You trade a sort of life-paralysis for active and engaging participation in how your life moves forward.
So many of us were taught that meaning only comes from suffering, that seriousness equals depth. However, depth also comes from curiosity, from giving into the laughter mid-learning the hard way. Allowing joy, experimentation, and wonder to coexist alongside your sense of struggle and pain.
You don’t disrespect your life by enjoying it.
You don’t cheapen growth by having fun while you learn.
You don’t lose purpose by letting go of the pressure.
This is just a game of life to be played...with intention, with heart, with enough joy and appreciation to stay at it when things don’t always go as planned.
🪬💙🙏
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