Life can be simplified into a series of events which see us either descend down the tail of a snake or climb a ladder of progress towards our hearts desire, so the child's parlour game can be equated not just to our life in the present but surely all of the lives we have lived in the past.
My question is do we presume the ladder is our achievements and the snake our failures, or is it more profound and a simpler game of life that we find ourselves players in? I wonder if the positive and negative rewards come not from our actions alone but from our reactions to the circumstances we find ourselves in, as we are told as long as you strive to do your best that is all that can be expected of you. So react to others badly and down the snake you slide, rise above the negative energies and actions of others and up the ladder you climb..... in fact you raise yourself above the negativity with each positive reaction to negative energy you encounter.
If everyone chose a positive reaction there would be no negative energy, the snakes would no longer need to exist and life would become progressively easier. We all wish for a life full of good things, but how can we expect this if our selfish behaviour drops a negative pebble in the pond and it's ripples spread the energy far and wide. Live simply with high endeavour and drop only positive pebbles into the pond of life, each step up the ladder we climb spiritually toward our goals and what a wonderful world it would be.......
