Snooker

The idea generation class that day really opened our mind. One of our idea is about snooker. Suddenly an idea jumped inside my mind. Not about how the snooker inspire and helps in our children storybook, but some life philosophy. I just ever play the snooker pool, which is a smaller one. I am not very expert in playing that, also not really clear about the rules and regulation, just understand need to use the white balls to push all the color balls down to the hole. So whenever I play, I will just aim to the hole and concentrate on pushing the color balls down to the hole. However, no matter how I aim, how i pose, sometime rally hard to push a ball down. However, in the mean time, another ball that accidentally being pushed by the ball that I aim can get into the hole. Sometime even I just simply push without aiming can also success. For this children story book idea generation, the "snooker theory" comes in too. The idea that we think the tutor will accept usually are not the good idea, while we think the idea that have lower chance one usually got the marks. Just like playing snooker. Life is also like playing snooker. When you purposely want to do something, sometime you feel it is hard, and no matter how many efforts you put also fail. Your journey to the goal might be hard, nevertheless there will be some surprise happen in your life. This can boost your confidence again to move forward. Of course, to decrease the failure rate,the skills are very important. Just like playing snooker, if I have learned some skills to play the snooker, the failure rate wont be so high. Therefore we have to check on our mistakes, or find other skills to make it succeed. The color balls just like our dreams and goals, in snooker pool, once we get one ball into the hole, we move closer to the glory. And our goals are the 7 color balls and a black balls. In real life, even we only have one dream or goal are hard to achieve. But hard does not mean impossible. We can be symbolize as the white ball, as long as the white ball still there, then chances are there. Just do not get the white ball into the hole then others will not have chance to take advantage on you. Perhaps I should always play snooker pool to remind me this theory of life.

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