“52 Pick Up” is a game where someone tosses an entire deck of cards into the air and they scatter everywhere: some face up, some face down, some wedged under the couch.
Then someone times you to see how long it takes to pick them all up, reorganize them, and place them back in a personalized order you chose beforehand.
To me, that’s life in a nutshell.
You never know when chaos is going to hit. You never know when everything you planned will suddenly be tossed into the air.
But you do get to choose how you respond. You get to shift your mindset, reset your order, and build a new path forward.
A deck of cards actually mirrors life far more than we think:
- 52 cards = 52 weeks in a year
- 4 suits = 4 seasons
- 13 cards in each suit = 13 weeks in a season
- 12 Royal cards = 12 months
- 2 red + 2 black suits = 4 solstices
- Red / Black = Day and Night
And during “52 Pick Up,” as the cards fly everywhere and land in unpredictable places, it reminds us that life can feel chaotic, overwhelming, and completely out of our control.
But the magic is this: with enough motivation, determination, and focus, we can gather the pieces again. We can reorder everything in our own unique way. We can create a new perspective and a new direction, even if the original plan got scattered across the floor.
Chaos isn’t the end. It’s the moment we get to decide who we want to become next.