Mahjong Life and Living

Tied to my mahjong origin story , my decision to play Japanese mahjong has been the best decision on my life - so far.  As a person, I developed myself within the game and the people whom I had met.  As people, we all have our medium to grow ourselves.  I happened to do within this game. So, how did I grow in this game? Repetition Acceptance Learning Community Repetition With each and every hanchan, we happen to play the same game each and every time.  We play with the same tiles and the same rules - for the most part.  Again and again, we start a game; play through it; and finish it. With each and every hanchan, we are faced with situations based on the tiles themselves.  We have our hands, and we face our opponent hands.  From there, we're dependent on our tile draws, and the tiles in the dead wall.  As a hand plays, we make our choices on which tile to keep and discard.  Most of these, they are common decisions with not much thinking requi...

 In the realm of - well - this universe, we experience events and outcomes on a random basis.  Many of these may be triggered by nature, other people, or things beyond our imagination.  In the grand scheme of things, we have no control of any of this randomness - if we can help it. To rationalize or as a function of cope, it may be our tendency to reason them.  Why does X-event or X-choice happen?  Living on this planet, we deal with this on a daily basis.  Personally, we can choose to resist these random events or go along with them.  Whatever happens though, we are given the ability to choose and react to them.  In turn, we contribute to the collection of random events. As mahjong players, we practice this one game at a time.