What I drink for

One of the most common phrases from college –

“I’ll drink to that!”

Everyone had a different threshold for it.

For some people, it was after a big exam.

For other people, it was Tuesday.

When we’re present, we have the option to notice what’s happening and ask ourselves – “do I want to (blank)?”. For them, “Today is Tuesday and I have class all week” apparently resulted in a yes to getting drunk.

My best guess is the Tuesday people lived their lives a little less present than the rest (at least at that time).

At the poker table?

We get to do the same thing.

Notice what’s happening, then ask ourselves what we want to do.

If you’re not present?

You tend to get stuck in your head and skip over that first part. And when you skip over the first part, you tend to be pretty ineffective at answering the second part.

Without much awareness of what’s going on inside everything we know about poker tends to get jumbled.

All of a sudden, “I’m down money and I don’t like how I feel” is enough of a reason to stop doing what you truly want, and try to get unstuck at all costs.

Or

“I’m up a bunch of money and I feel uncomfortable about losing it back” is also enough of a reason to stop doing what you truly want, and leave before you give yourself the chance to have an absolute monster session.

It goes both ways.

In either case, all we can do is notice what’s going on, accept what we feel about it all, and choose from there.

If you skip anything, you’ll often regret whatever happens next. In my experience, that’s not a very fun way to go about living.

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