ODDS.

Sometimes.

The odds are stacked against you.

Not because anyone’s been nasty or purposefully horrid.

You just won’t win.

Because you can’t win.

Odds. 

It’s just the way it is.

You.

Will.

Fail.

And when you do it’s important that you just smile.

Maybe shake your head.

Maybe laugh.

Head down.

Eyes closed.

Because you have to get on with it.

You have work to do.

Magic Trick. 

Izobel had a magic trick to show me this morning.

‘Quite a simple trick.

And not really magic.

But as she’s 3.

I let that go.

Numbers.

Basically, she had a number in her head that I had to guess.

From just one clue.

So here’s how it went:

Daddy.

Listen to my magic trick.

It’s a number.

You have to guess.

And your clue is.

It starts with ‘fff’.

I bit.

Four!

I said.

Izobel laughed at me.

No!

It’s NOT four!

Silly.

Ffffffffffff.

So I guessed again.

Err.

Five!

Izobel laughed.

NO!

Silly.

She said.

So I gave in.

I was driving.

She was in the back.

And we were nearly at nursery.

Well what number are you thinking of then?

I asked.

And that’s when she told me.

In one of those, ‘how can you be that stupid?’ voices:

Free!

Odds.

Sometimes.

The odds are stacked against you.

Not because anyone’s been nasty or purposefully horrid.

You just won’t win.

Because you can’t win.