Chutes and Ladders

Do you remember that childhood board game "chutes and ladders"? Where you’re trying to reach the top before everyone else just so you can say that you did it; but somewhere along the way you run into chutes, that brings you down. You get so angry at yourself like "why did you have to spin a 3!" and just like that, you lose all hope. It was hard as a kid to see your friends get ladders when you’re just get chutes, but just when you want to quit you come spin again. Right in that exact moment you land on a ladder and you fly up the board, you’re untouchable. That's how I feel about life.
In life we want to be the best and we expect some much out of ourselves as kids, but as we get older so many things get in our way from reaching our dreams. Like sex, drugs, alcohol and so on; that's our chutes. They're there to test us, to see if we are strong enough to get back up after we fall. We as humans can decided our fate (for the most part), so make a decision. Are you going to let the chutes get the best of you or are you going to climb ladders to reach your dreams?
A childhood board game I thought was just laughs and giggles actually tract and still is teaching me important life lessons.