Someone taught you every card game you know, patiently, while you cheated. That patience is still paying off.

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Teaching tolerates a great deal of bad faith. Somebody sat across a table explaining the same rules repeatedly to a child who was palming cards and pretending to count badly, and they kept their voice level and played another hand. That patience is not a small thing. It is also the reason you know how to play anything at all.

Teach a game to somebody younger this week and let them cheat without comment. If the original teacher is still around, tell them you remember what they put up with.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Who kept playing with you while you were terrible at it?

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