Your game of chess?
More often or not, I thought that life might just be like a game of chess- wei qi.
We take turns to play our moves, yet we can't really see the outcome of our moves.
What do I mean by that?
Well, in Wei qi (Go) , you are free to play your seed onto any intersection point on the board, however, there is no certain that your move is not going to be useful in any sense.
Well, in a way, yes, we do have definitions for a good move and a bad move, this only helps us to differentiate which are the better choices, just like in life - good and bad.
Making a bad move...
I'm sure through our road of learning and growing, many of us often learnt from mistakes, or go with the mistakes made.
After making a move, there will be some thoughts given to it that it might be a bad move!
Thus, we tend to savage the situation and hope to make the best of it.
However, there are two ways getting around it. Either you rescued it (to escape from being captured) or you tried to make "life" in your opponent territory (to live with it). So which did you actually choose and carry on with the game?
The balance...
IN life, we do experience loss and gain. Even some of us choose to believe that in this world that we are living in, equality do exist in general, but comparably, there is bound to have a difference between every one of us.
Think of it as the tides, if a place has a high tide, there will certainly be a place elsewhere with low tide, demonstrating the balance in nature, or think of the law of energy conservation.
As for the difference, it's quite obvious to go without saying, we are all born different from one another, we are envious of others sometimes, we are proud of what we had achieved and sometimes being identical can cause quite a deal of problems too.
Well, so where do the balance get demonstrated on the chess of wei qi? When we lost something, we tend to have the urge to recuperate our losses, this is natural, even when we are playing any other games. You lost to the boss at a certain stage, game over, you reload, having noticed how to defeat the boss, you proceed on!
Don't you think so too?
So we do know that each game will come to an end eventually, that goes for life too. I guess the only difference is we made our moves faster in chess than in life. And since we do have more time in life, why don't we start today and make our each move more carefully onwards!
As for the last question, who is OUR opponent in life?
The ANSWER to this question can be quite arbitary. It can be yourself, your inner self. It can be changing constantly to someone else, whatever or whomever we met in life, they might be playing a few moves in your game of chess.
The key to victory?
There won't be absolute victory which I'm sure, since we had lost something before. The key to get yourself to the end game portion is to take control of the rythem of the game. It is a kind of skill to be learned and acquired just like in life.
I wrote this in conjuncture of real life and wei qi because I think it might be easier to relate life with something else, in a way, we can maybe see a bigger, clearer picture of what's going on in our surroundings. Maybe when we are sad, stressed or in need to make a decision, we can try to calm down a bit to make a decision (or a move) just like playing a game of chess.
Cheers, for those who read this,
Zhaoru
PS: feel free to tell me what do you think about it!
posted by Zhaoru @ 1:21 AM
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