“Open your eyes, then open them again”- Terry Pratchett

I love this quote from Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series becuase it is just so true. It has now become my favourite game to play on the bus on the way to college. Surprisingingly, the best place to play it, is in a place that you think you know so well.

How to play it:

Difficulty- Easy
How many players: 1-5 (perfect for in the car.)

1. Say to yourself "Open your eyes, then open them again".


2. Blink and then look around you what do you see?


3. Fields, roads, a wall ? Boring things?... Look again....


4. Now really look at it. What colours can you see? Did you see that buzzard in the top of that tree? The deer hiding in the hedge?
   

It is about looking at everyday objects and really looking at them. Eventually after you have played it for a while, you automatically notice details you would never imagine to be there. It is really amazing and need not be limited to a sunny day, you might be surprised (as I was) to find out how beautiful a pavement can be in wet weather!

Become your destiny

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary

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I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me

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Do not be overcome by evil

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God gives us dreams a size to big

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Memorable Quotes

Prince Caspain (C.S. Lewis)

“I was wishing that I came of a more honourable lineage.” “You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,” said Aslan. “And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.”

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)

"It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards."

The Last Battle (C.S. Lewis)

"The dream is ended: this is the morning."And as He spoke He longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."

The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R Tolkien)

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."