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Last week, I convinced that an afternoon was accompanied by a restaurant in Brooklyn to learn how to play Hong Kong-Style Mahjong. I was always interested in the sound sounds that satisfy Mahjong’s colorful bakelite plates, as they mixed. My mom plays American versions twice a club in a club that is in a club that makes me a little jealous of me in a week: Why don’t something regular play?

We were a group of 15 or more students. To start, we played a dummy round with all the tiles to see everyone’s values ​​and the teacher can walk with each step trip: You have built the wall of the tiles, you set the table. Roll the dice to see which player will break the wall. These are suit plates, these are honor plates, dragons and winds.

Mahjong is not a cinch to learn. Our teacher was excellent, repeating each step of the rules several times and asked us to return them. Where was the card games, but I was confused by the sophistication, wait, do you need three identical plates to create a pung? How did this guy only win the game when you see how the flower tiles work?

And then: Why do I learn to play this game when you know many other games and never play? This was a desire to annoy me and leave me out of the middle class, and I wanted to get out of the middle class: Why do I do it? Of course I am involved in new experiences who want to expand their horizons to increase opportunities for satisfaction, I am a person involved in new experiences. Mahjong offers all this! But the study of a new game is something I don’t do in centuries. Children (and parents) are easily something, but as a result, most of us will stand. Creets the car to learn new things. Getting the old main frame and re-run is not easy and comfortable. Many things in life are not easy or comfortable! Why do you prefer someone else? I even have a place for my mind, calendar and the other What I do?

My friend, I brought to Mahjong, was surprised by me a few days, and we both decided that our class was redirected enough, but we had no play or notice or brain plate. “I got me my Mahjong voice,” he said. “Now we need another two people and we can play.” I returned to our class, how I wanted to leave, because I did not master Mahjong enough fast enough. Being bad in something makes it bad. Being new is often unpleasant and embarrassing. Of course, we are standard to do what we are doing well. We like being confident and comfortable and look cool.

But here was invited to the community. In order to get to the other side with other people, a new hobby, maybe a new ritual, maybe a new ritual, maybe I would be envious in my mom’s games.

I wrote several weeks ago about how I thought of this time of year a few weeks ago ineffectiveTo ensure that the winner is caught in winter and open the winter and type in the northern hemisphere. Caught, I think now, sometimes it can be difficult. To intentionally move from a familiar place is not without his concern. When a chick recently prepares a chick hatch, it develops a sharp small structure used by an egg tooth to avoid leaving eggs. How incredible! How do our own eggs raise our teeth, break our own shells, make our own means to avoid our very close covers and go out to light?

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