rummycub

I’m reminded to do the best I can.

On Sundays I play the board game Rummycub with a group of elderly ladies.
When I started some five years ago I soon found that the safest way to play the game was to never play out all the stones I had on my board. That way I always had stones to play and would have to buy as little is possible.

For a few years that seemed a very save way of playing. Only last year I realized that it actually kept me from winning.
Playing save means that you never concentrate very well. You never look for clever moves. Very often I only saw that I could have played a stone after I had finished my turn.
In the end it meant that I almost always lost the game.

Ever since I always go for broke. I played every stone I had on my board. If I didn’t see and obvious way to play I made an effort to find clever ways to play my stones.
I still loose a lot of games but not for lack of trying.

Today I again had the feeling that I was getting to the end of my rope. I did know what the next drawing should be. But I didn’t know what I would draw their after.
To play it save I decided to make something a bit artsy. A lot of blue with branches and leafs.

Half way through I remembered that when times get hard it’s always best to go for broke. After I’ve drawn todays tree I’ll probably think of something else. But even if I don’t.
It’s better to draw nothing for a few days then to bore my self to death with a drawing I don’t even like.

Which leaves the question what to do with the half finished drawing. Should I through it out and forget that it ever happened. Or should I publish it and try to remember never to make this mistake again.

No more blue