quit while you're ahead

Its funny how things that no one wants always get passed around.

When you have those circles of friends in a bonding activity, then you pass food around, do you ever realise that the chip bag moves slowly but things like the jamtarts from someone's cny celebs moves the fastest. No one wants it, but it moves 3-4 rounds before someone has the sense to put it aside. No one wants to look like the wasteful one who doesn't want it and puts it aside, but then again, each person knows they themselves don't want it. So it continues to pass around at impressive speed while everyone inwardly hopes that there will be some sad person in the circle who is pathetic enough to want it.

Almost the same as life eh, the way that parents recycle presents, the way we try to ditch work onto someone else, the way we push blame to other people. I guess thats why people say you should quit while you are ahead. Because if you are ahead you can outrun the people who are trying to pass things to you. It is the people behind who get all the crap dished out to them and need to bear all of humanity's crap.

Hoho. It's like the whole world knows how to play pass-the-parcel.