"That's All You Think About!"
The above statement is one I hear all the time, and I must admit, there is "some" truth to it. For a good while, I thought, blah blah blah, whatever. If you know my family (trust me, you don't want to) you will know that every second sentence that seeps out of their sweaty lips is either sarcastic or derogatory, and to be truthful, I'm a main offender. But after a good few weeks, I realised I DO think about Yahtzee an awful lot. Then I got to thinking, why is that? Of all the things that can preoccupy one's mind, why this silly little dice game? Well, below is an attempt to answer that question. Whether I succeed or not is another matter.
Part of my preoccupation can be explained by the fact that I am also a bit of an obsessive organiser. Don't take that to mean that I'm an organised person. In fact, I'm quite the opposite, unless I'm focused, which is rare but it does happen. The way I see it is I created the BHO, so I feel obligated to it. I try and keep matches moving (along with others), admittedly not very successfully, I collate the scores and update the tables when we get a match in. Not because I have to, but because I want to. I also keep everyone updated on the scores and standings. I confess that I don't always do this in a timely fashion, much to the annoyance of the others, but it does get done eventually. And now I have this blog, which means I've more or less doubled my involvement. But that was my idea and I've no-one to blame but myself. I do love it though. I now have focus. Perhaps it's the least important thing I could focus on... but still, it keeps me busy... ish.
Another reason I think about Yahtzee a lot is that deep... deep down inside this cider swilling, wine glugging, flaky skin scratching couch potato, there is just the slightest whiff of ambition. Yeah, that's right, ambition. Just a little bit, but it's there. I want Yahtzee to become a "thing". I want to bring people along for the ride. Now I know Yahtzee has been a popular game since way before I was a twinkle in my dad's tadge. But just an odd game on a rainy Sunday is not how I see Yahtzee. Whether daft, stupid or whatever, I think it could be more. My hope is that this blog can entice other people to join, and hopefully form there own factions, and if successful, set up a competition between different factions and meet new people. Will it happen? Ask me another. But in my humble opinion the journey is just as important as the destination. I will be taking steps to increase this blogs visibilty and attract new members, but for now, I'm content to waffle on as I am, regardless of who might or might not be listening.
The final reason that Yahtzee takes up so much real estate in my brain, is the most important, and that's family and friends. There was a time that I would spend every weekend with my family, and it was great. Some of my best years. My sister and I lived only a few streets away so it was easy. Then my mum and dad moved in just yards away from my sister and we were all together. But time marches on. My sister knocked out a few more sprogs and so did my wife. My mum and dad moved, then my sister spirited herself away, and only a couple of weeks later, me and my family moved, so the weekends just kind of fizzled away. Nobody's fault. Just the way it goes sometimes. And that's the way it stayed for a good few years. Don't get me wrong, we still saw each other (and we never fell out with each other), but not nearly as much as once we did. But then came Yahtzee. Now we see each other weekly, pretty much without fail. And isn't that what these things are all about? Getting together? I suppose we could meet over the dinner table, but we're not that kind of family. We'd much rather have a few bevvies and get loud. Yahtzee fits in well with that. It would have been nice to have had my mother involved in the birth of the BHO and the rekindling of our weekend get togethers. But COVID got in the way and she sadly passed away before all this happened. This is a shame, I think she would have loved it.
Anyway, in conclusion, no, Yahtzee isn't ALL I think about, after all, it is just a dice game, but it is a sizable presence in my humble existence for the reasons I've stated.
Hopefully I've explained myself well enough as to why that is, and well enough that my family will shut up about it now. But... I doubt it...
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