Have you ever played the game ‘Snakes & Ladders’?
It’s a bit like life. Snakes take you down or backwards, and ladders take you up or forwards. In life, after you have experienced the exhilaration of a ladder, it is quite possible that you could bump into a snake. But on the flip-side, after experiencing the humbling emitted by an encounter with a snake, your next move could land you at the foot of a ladder.
However, at the end of the day, it’s not the number of ladders or snakes that you face in your life that will determine your fate.
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‘Often the best way out is through.’
All of us at some time in our lives will feel hemmed in, surrounded, blocked, hindered, or delayed by life’s circumstances. This is not the time to run, nor to even stand still, resigned to the seeming fate or thought that this now is to be your lot in life.
We were never born to stagnate. We were never created to crumble. We were brought to planet earth to conquer and to overcome.
And so when your enemy surrounds you – that is the time to take up arms and declare war. Wild animals know this, for a wild animal, when it is backed into a corner – this is when it is most vicious. For it knows that there is only one way out of their predicament and that is to go forward.
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Have you ever played the game ‘Snakes & Ladders’?
