Today is April Fool’s Day. The internet is going to be basically worthless today trying to determine whether an article is legitimate or a prank. So, I’m going to relay a story that happened yesterday.

Scrivs and I were playing Weewar. Someone from the Weewar team came to one of the SuperStreams, mentioned the game, and gave the three of us invites. We decided to give it a try. What is Weewar?

Weewar.com is a round based strategy game featuring real action on real maps. Up to 6 players command their colorful pixel armies against each other on the many maps available.

Scrivs started a map and we started playing. Scrivs made the first move, I made the second. Then, for me, the game slowly dived into hell. See, from the third move on I knew I was screwed, game was over but I refused to surrender so it took 11 turns for me to be defeated. Eleven turns when Scrivs knew, I knew and if anyone could watch that game knew I was extremely vulnerable early on. The writing was on the wall but I used the additional turns to learn more about the game (ok, I was stubborn but I can’t wimp out playing against Scrivs…even if I want it to be over quickly so I can attempt to whoop his ass the next round).

The ending could not be re-written.

While thinking of something to write on April Fool’s I thought about how often we know the end result and refuse to accept it. How, by not accepting the truth, time is wasted. For example, have you ever been in a relationship you know wasn’t going to work but prolonged ending it to avoid the drama? Does the end result change? No, but time is wasted. Or the project that doesn’t have your full commitment but you don’t want to withdraw because you don’t want to fail, the project “should” be a higher priority, you don’t want to disappoint anyone, ? A social networking example, how many of you have a bunch of friends that you “follow”, do not really pay attention to (for example, you only read the first page or two on your Twitter profile or really do not pay attention to your Twitter application) yet feel like you are suffering from information overload? Isn’t the writing on the wall that some people will have to be weeded out, ignored, etc?

Note that in each situation, nothing was done to improve the situation, only to maintain a scenario that one knows isn’t working out.

In my Weewar game I learned something, it was only 20 minutes, I still lost but I hope I will be better next time. Some people waste weeks, months and years prolonging the inevitable without improving the situation at all.

Unfortunately, many of those people will look back and wonder where the time went.