Wild card

Would you dare to throw away something valuable?

Photo credit: Javardh from Unsplash.

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A while ago, I visited a friend, and we played a card game called Phase 10. You might be familiar with it.

If you’ve played it before you know it consists of a Wild card. The role of the Wild card is to be used instead of a number card and as any color to complete any phase.

The Wild card makes winning easier.

It is valuable. No one just throws it away allowing other players to use it for their own advantage.

As my friend, her brother and I were playing, she had one card remaining. It was a Wild one.

Once she completed her phase, she threw her Wild card and won the round.

She had no reason to keep it. Meanwhile, her brother and I were desperately waiting for one.

We needed it, she didn’t. So it didn’t hold as much value for her as it held for us. We needed a Wild card to help us complete our phase. Unfortunately, we didn’t get lucky.

I remember saying, “When you don’t need it, you don’t value it.”

And that got me thinking about aspects of life. Yes, welcome to my brain. We go from playing a card game to thinking deeply about life in a matter of seconds.

Back to seriousness.

I began to think and stumbled upon this question: How often have we thrown a ‘Wild’ card away like it meant nothing because we didn’t need it at that moment?

It’s interesting the way we value and devalue things based on our convenience.

It’s interesting the way we can hold on to something, yet can easily throw it away.

But I realized that a Wild card’s value doesn’t change. It doesn’t increase or decrease whether it’s kept and used, or thrown away. Just because it’s not useful once, doesn’t limit its value.

Often, we let ourselves be valued and devalued based on others’ convenience.

We also tend to value and devalue things and people based on our convenience.

Now, if a Wild card wasn’t useful once it doesn’t make it useless next time another player in need has it.

The point I am trying to convey here is that some days we might not feel ’useful.’ Although we carry value and assets, it might not be used accordingly. But by no means should you devalue yourself (or allow others to do so).

For instance, a diamond ring is valuable. Whether it’s worn or not. Its value doesn’t decrease.

And if it did, in my opinion, it never held any value.

You are a Wild card in this world. You are needed.

Sometimes you may be thrown away like you hold no value. But remember, it does not mean you’re worthless or useless.

Don’t allow one situation to fuel your mind with doubt and discredit your potential.

A Wild card remains important in every single round. And so should you remain important in every single round of your life.

The creator of this game initially and intentionally put value on the Wild card.

It’s the same with us. If we focus on our Creator we will always see value in ourselves and others.

So what do you rest value upon?

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