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Chapter 8 - Chapter 7. "Lose gracefully."

I have an old tattoo on the upper portion of my lower left arm.

It is on the inside, and just before that little inner-arm-elbow type of thing.

I suppose I could have just Googled the proper medical term...

But where is the fun in that?

Anyway lol

It is a Dwennimmen.

An African symbol that is a bird's eye view of two rams butting horns.

It literally translates to "rams horns" lol but it also means "strength in humility."

Although I am strong, I know that there is and will always be something or someone stronger than I am.

I try to live by that.

That, and the law of equivalent exchange from FMA.

If you know, you know!

Enjoy.

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January 7th, 2012.

Journal #007.

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So I'm playing Magic -The Gathering- with XXXXX and XXXXX, and I'm getting my butt whooped!

No big.

You win some, you lose some.

Right?

No.

She gets pissed because I happen to win by some random fluke...

I know how to lose gracefully. 

Some people don't.

I can't help that my decks get out of bad situations lol. 

Oops.

So unplanned. 

Huh.

I'm awesome. 

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I know this comes off as kinda pompous of me but hear me out.

When I was a kid two of my older brothers had a shit-ton of M.T.G. cards, and I wanted to learn how to play and have some of my own soooooo bad!

The two of them bullied the shit out of me, so asking was out of the question, and I wouldn't dare steal from them.

I wouldn't be alive to post these journals had I attempted to do so lbvs.

But by some miracle, they tossed me a handful of "useless" goblin cards one day.

I was beyond belated! 

Aaaaaand then our mum got her hands on a few of my older brother's cards and saw the not-so-Christian imagery that the artist had to offer... 

She tossed them all in the trash.

ALL OF THEM,

I kinda wonder what some of those older cards are worth these days lol.

Long-story-short:

I taught myself how to play via a series of YouTube videos when I got older, then I taught all of my friends to play.

So of course I was the best player in the group! I was the only one who really knew how the game mechanics worked lol 

But I wasn't -and still am not- a dick till this day when we call sit and play.

I know that I have an unfair skill and knowledge advantage, so I hold back.

My decks are all old and as perfect as they can be, so they have a built-in habit of getting me out of rather tricky or bothersome corners lol. If you know, you know.

So, I am hard to beat. 

I am not an ass lol

I am just the boss battle.

I actually prefer to lose since I don't very often. 

I think and believe that losing teaches us a lot more than winning ever will.

I have gotten so good because I have lost a lot, and now I don't lose nearly as much. 

Enough of my nerdy shit, yeah?

See you soon folks.

-Redd.