Baby is a huge fan of Monopoly. She could play the board game every day for hours!
Yesterday and today, she asked me to play with her. Since I have been relatively free, I have obliged her.
She's a completely different kind of player from me. I would get dispirited when I am on a losing streak and keep having to pay the bank and other players. I would also give up on the game altogether if I keep having to go to jail and not collecting $2000 when I pass 'Go'.
Baby is a super sporting player. She would not quit when she keeps losing money. Even when she doesn't have a dollar on her anymore, she would sell away her houses, mortgage lands, or even ask to defer payment to continue playing! And she would remain optimistic, highly spirited and cheerful as she continues to play! For a petty player like me, I can never grasp how she is able to do that. I would refuse to sell away a thing that I have. I would rather give up the game than lose anything in my possession. I have a lot to learn from her when it comes to playing games!
Her strategy is to buy up whichever land she comes to land on.
However, she builds very few houses as she has this superstitious belief that people stop landing on her lands when she builds houses there. One of the very few lands she built houses on had me landed on it. She was so thrilled she took a picture of it with the money I paid her for: $5500!
I landed on the same place 3 times!
Although the game ended with me as the winner - for once - since I built multiple hotels and houses, her graciousness at losing a game and never-say-die attitude are very admiring.
May she apply the same grace and tenacity to her studies.
