What Good is A Rule?

There may be a plot, or maybe not.  Everything might be connected, or then again, maybe not.  Everything has meaning, or well, I mean, if you don't know the meaning, what does it all mean?


And you have been told over and over, "keep your eye on the ball."  But sometimes there is no ball.  Or if there is one, you just don't see it.  And then suddenly it comes at you from a completely unexpected direction, and you wonder if someone "has it in" for you.


And sometimes you think, this is just a grand game, but then it's not always a game you want to play, and it's not so grand, and the rules are not explained, and if a rule can be changed on a whim with no explanation, well then, what good is a rule?