Irony

A great deal of my life seems centered around irony. I am going to break out the dictionary again so please forgive me; the Merriam Webster online dictionary defines irony as follows; a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony. Okay maybe that wasn't the definition I was looking for because I had to look up more words in the actual definition like adroit which means having or showing skill, cleverness or resourcefulness. Let me go back to what I originally thought was irony and I will cite some examples such as; I am compulsive gambler that has worked in the casino industry for 12 years. I obviously had a pretense of ignorance because I thought I was better than all of the people that would visit the casino yet I did the SAME things.

How do I say this next sentence without saying what I really need to say, I will give it a try: I did some bad things to my employer (in the Casino Industry) and the bad things I did were also being done by others to benefit my employer. Those reading between the lines this is not to diminish or make right what I did in anyway it is what I believe to be an ironic situation. I am still not sure if I am using the word irony in the correct context but I will stick with it for now. I am sure SOMEONE(??) will correct me. Today I was doing work which is typing appraisals for our friend and the appraiser came by to do an appraisal on our house. Is that really irony?? So sorry I thought this segment would turn out a lot more clever than it has, oh well!!!

Off of the subject of irony on to Game 7 of the NBA finals which was played this evening. In years gone by I would make sure I got to see this game but not tonight. I did view a few minutes of the second half and I was viewing it with my sports fan hat on. This hat has not been worn in a number of years. The hat used to only cared who covered the point spread. I watched for a few minutes with my son as we were preparing for his bath (he actually wanted to watch baseball but that maybe a story for another time!!). In my sports betting days 4 months ago, I would give my son his bath but make sure I got to see the end of whatever game was on because I had to know who covered but not tonight, I could have cared less. I do enjoy watching sports and it is so much more enjoyable when you don't have to sweat out the final minutes worrying who is going to cover the point spread. Life is so much more meaningful than an insignificant basketball game, oh the wasted time!!