Closing the Monopoly Box
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★I LOVE MONOPOLY. I’m a consummate entrepreneur. I like taking something, crafting and building it to then see how I can expand it more.
When I play this game I get very “Trumpheptic” in the way I try to take over. My main goal and aim is to purchase Park Place and Boardwalk because they are the most valuable properties on the board. If I get those two pieces of property, then I’ve begun building Mr.
Evans’s neighborhood. I will put up some green houses and start charging rent. And if you can’t pay, then you must leave the game.
I’m a barracuda when I am playing Monopoly. There is also a depressing time when I am playing Monopoly.
That is when the game is over. It is then that I’m reminded it was all a game.
When the game is over, the green houses, the red hotels, and all that paper money must go back into the box. Then we close the box and I come back to the real world.
One day, they are going to close the box. When they do, it will not matter what you left behind because it’s going to someone else.
When they close the box, what will matter is what you forwarded ahead. What time, talents, and treasures you had that had eternity attached to them.
The point
In Monopoly, all the properties and money must go back in the box when the game ends. Similarly, death will close this box of life, and only what we send ahead to eternity will matter—time, talents, and treasures with eternal value.