Would You Like A Nice Game Of Chess?

"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Life, sometimes feels like a game, to me a game of chess, we make moves to try and control the path we want to follow, the set plays, the advances, but usually it takes all our strength and determination just to hold the line. There are however two distinct differences between life and games...

Firstly, the opposition. In Life it is you versus the rest of the world, so never under estimate it's ability to beat you, remember there are always people out there bigger and better at playing it than you are...

But more importantly, there are the controls. In games there are rules and for all games like chess they're set and cannot be broken... But for Life, there aren't any fixed rules... We all have to make our own up based on what we think is right, social factors, background, moral integrity etc. But therefore, obviously your opponents are playing with their own Rule Book, rules they've deffined for themselves, learnt from there own experiences of Life which will be different to yours...

So how do we choose which moves to make? How can we think through a strategy if everyone else is playing a virtually different game?

Some people choose not to play at all, settle for a secluded existance, safe hidden behind their own defence, but this isn't really my style. The only way to live is to give up the thinking and purley trust your feelings... Go with what you 'feel' is the right thing to do in your heart... It's impossible to out think everyone, no one can control the game of life...

Some may not understand the moves you make, but they are looking in from their own set of rules. But if you do exactly what you 'feel' is right, win or loose, at the very least you can look back and say you always did what you 'felt' was the best thing to do... What more can you ask of yourself?

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

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