i didnt know where to put this 'quote' but i like so here it is!

[HaxorISay]

I first learned it from my grandmother.

Now, my grandmother is a wonderful person – she taught me how to play the game Monopoly.

She understood that the name of the game is to acquire.

She would accumulate everything she could and eventually she became the master of the board.

Then she would always say the same thing to me, she would look at me and she would say: “One day, you will learn to play the game.”

One summer, I played Monopoly almost every day all day long, and that summer I learned how to play the game.

I came to understand the only way to win, is to make a total commitment to acquisition.

I came to understand that money and possessions – that’s the way you keep score.

And by the end of that summer I was more ruthless than my grandmother, I was willing to bend the rules if I had to to win that game.

When I sat down to play with her that autumn, I took everything she had – I watched her give her last £ and quit in utter defeat.

And then she had one more thing to teach me. Then she said:

“Now it all goes back in the box.

All those houses and hotels.

All the railroads and utility companies.

All that property and all that wonderful money.

Now it all goes back in the box.

None of it was really yours.

You got all heated up about it for a while

But it was around a long time before you sat down at the board, and it will be here for a long time after you’re gone.

Players come, players go.

Houses and cars.

Titles and clothes.

Even your body.”

Because the fact is – that everything I clutch and consume and hoard is going to go back in the box and I’m going to lose it all.

You have to ask yourself – when you finally get the ultimate promotion, when you have made the ultimate purchase, when you buy the ultimate home, when you have stored up financial security and climbed the ladder of success to the highest run you can possibly climb it, and the thrill wears off – and it will wear off – then what?

How far do you have to walk down that road before you see where it leads?

Surely you understand – it will never be enough.

So you have to ask yourself the question – what matters?

[HaxorISay]

i didnt know where to put this 'quote' but i like *IT* so here it is!

[Urban-Ninja]

and when the game is over... it all just goes back in the box..

nice!

i like this analogy:

[HaxorISay]

yea just like that one

[Gazz]

Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life