...I told my then 5 year old daughter.
[UNO Chronicles part 1/4. Originally published by me on April 26, 2020. Sharing it again for those who did not read it back then]
We were in the second month of lockdown back then, in April 2020 and, like every parent, I had found unlimited time with my little one while working from home. That meant sneaking in some games in between work. She had taken a liking to UNO recently and we'd play UNO almost daily.
Have you ever played UNO? Most of you probably have. How do you react when your opponent drops a Draw 4 card on you? Annoying, right? For the uninitiated, in UNO, the player who gets rid of all the cards they hold wins. If your opponent drops a "Draw 4" card, you end up adding 4 more cards to your hand. But whenever I play with my daughter, she gets ecstatic when I drop a Draw 4 on her! Even to this day, 2 years later, that's why I remembered this story and thought of reposting it today.
So back then, when I saw her react that way, I asked her what I quoted above. "When I have to draw cards, I get a chance to get magical cards,'' she said, grinning ear to ear. Magical cards, as she calls them, are Draw 4, Draw 2, Skip, Reverse & Wildcard cards. One can only get the joy of dropping these cards on their opponent if you get a chance to draw them in the first place. A deep logic that even puts a logical guy like me in deep thought.
We adults often look at an adverse event as annoying, whereas a kid here was looking at one as an opportunity! What was even more curious is that, quite often, even after dropping the Draw 4s I end up on the losing side. Perhaps she does end up making the most of the 4 cards she draws.
Let's embrace all the Draw 4s coming our way in life - perhaps we will end up with better cards that will help us win in the longer run.
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