Human beings have loved games since ancient times. Even a sourpuss likes to play a fun game and everyone knows how to play at least a few. It makes you wonder if people are born loving games and if so whether there are games in the afterlife. Just think about what kind of complicated games there would be if people could play them for eternity. I suppose the games would be peaceful in heaven and more violent in hell and kind of dull in purgatory. Of course people around the world believe in different kinds of afterlives and some think we are reincarnated and start all over again. I like to think that no matter how the afterlife works there will be games involved. Maybe our life is one big game and our score helps decide where we go or whether we come back. Or it could be that our lives are training us for a game we play after death that decides our fate. If that’s the case I hope it’s not a hard game or I might wind up in a dark place. But unless the game master is really sinister I think there will be different games for different ages and types of people. Little kids might play Twister and smart people might play chess and maybe simpler people will play checkers. Or it could be a game that none of us have ever played before and it might send us to places we’ve never even thought of, like a world where we are floating clouds or a dark world where we live in glowing leisure hives. The best kind of game would reward the winners and give everyone else another chance, or be a cooperation game where people work together. I do like a good game so I think I will be ready when the time comes. Still, though, I think I will start practicing more while I’m still kicking so I will be ready for the biggest game of all.