Life is a game.

So, you think your life is so serious? Get over yourself, it’s not the least bit serious. Life is a game, it’s cosmically unimportant how well you play. Remember this song? See if you have a listen.

Yeah, you remember it, but you’re not quite sure you can put your name to it, to put a name to it. Well, a bunch of years ago, you probably thought the song was important. A lot of other people did too. They knew it right away, they were hip to it, and now, a few years later, the only person for whom it’s important is the guy who made the song and made a few million bucks. For all the rest of us, life moved on. And your whole life was like that. Not so long ago, you were a speck of sperm that met an egg, and 80 years later, you’re a rotting corpse. Your life isn’t so serious, even in this great moment of uncertainty, stress, and concern, and this video is going to be all about your life’s a game.

As a coach, public speaker, and best-selling author, I, Paul Krismer, teach topics just like this one all around the world. So, stay tuned, and I’ll give you practical tools that you can use to make both yourself and those around you both happier and more successful. So, not long ago, I was sitting on the couch with my youngest son in a serious moment, and we were talking about school work, and the importance of the things you needed to do before the school year wound up, and we thought it was a real serious talk.

But in reality, it was a speck of time, it was the same issues that every parent has talked about with every kid for as long as kids have been going to school. But we didn’t see it that way. And yet, from a cosmic perspective, in a 14 billion year perspective, the conversation was not just unimportant, it was utterly meaningless in a cosmic significant way. And yet, that boy I was speaking to, everything that he’s made of, was created out of a big bang 14 billion years ago. It’s the same matter in the universe today as it was 14 billion years ago. I know it’s just weird, but that’s just true.

And you know how sometimes you play, um, checkers, or a game of soccer, and if you take it too seriously, the fun comes out of it, and if you take it not seriously at all, there’s no fun in that either, right? You’re just slacking off, not taking the game seriously. There’s some middle ground, some place where if you can play the game with sincerity, like you really care, and yet not with too much seriousness, and that’s where the fun is. It’s a sincere game. And that is your friggin life. That is all of our lives. And right now, in the midst of the crazy things that are going on in the world, virus, economic collapse, the horrible things, the fights that you get in with your spouse and your family members, the shitty boss you work for, whatever it is, the things that you think are important, in a cosmic way, they’re ridiculously insignificant. So, don’t take yourself too seriously.

Even the systemic racism, the right now, across the world we’re paying attention to, and we care about, well, we should. This is our moment. We need to play this game with sincerity. Systemic racism, we have an opportunity to address it like we haven’t had before. But don’t take it too seriously. A thousand years from now, nobody will remember this moment. Two thousand years from now, none of it will be meaningful. A billion years from now, the universe will continue, and all of us will be so insignificantly forgotten. We’re specks of dust in a 14 billion-year-old universe. It’s completely unimportant. But don’t lose the importance of this moment. It’s our moment, our moment to take sincerely.

And yet, if we take it too seriously, it ain’t fun. We want it to be fun. We want to feel a sense of accomplishment, a sense of mission, and stay on that mission, and play it with all the sincerity you’ve got. And know that when we win this game, it’s worth it. But there is no score, there’s no ultimate score. The only real score is your own happiness, and the happiness of other people, because that is the ultimate scorecard. And so, for playing the game, play it sincerely, and play it to be happy. Don’t take it too seriously. If you like this video, click the like button. If you like it, share it with your friends. And if you want more content like this every Sunday morning, you can get it by subscribing to my channel. Thanks for watching, see you next time.