If somebody asked me: ‘To be or not to be?’, i’d answer ‘To be’. No one asked me, but i still decided to answer the question.
Some questions are a prelude for a chess game that is played inside your mind. Questions precede decisions, decisions precede changes on the board, risks, sacrifices and an ultimate result. When a game is between you and yourself, you’ve got the advantage that, theoretically, the notion of ‘loss’ is no longer valid.
You can be a good player, have fundamental tactics on which you construct your game, yet you are perfectly conscious of the fact that your opponent (yourself) is aware of the tactics you are using. Cheating is…ermm…fun… bedazzling… and…well, temporary. While you waste your time cheating, your opponent would’ve already violently moved the Queen in front of your Pawn Artilery. You may wish for a lack of concentration from your opponent and see that one of your Pawns might be able to ‘kill’ the Queen. But both of the players inside you are strong enough to see the whole picture of the board. You are lucky to have your Knight on the table which can elegantly leap over other pieces and give you new hopes into new directions. The Knight‘s ‘L’-shaped move may give you the illusion of being in Love, but most often it is only you having the need of being a bit Lyrical and fly over all the other fragments of your mind. Use your Bishop to grasp the diagonals of all the battle field and always look for it. But don’t be too inquisitive about your possibilities, your opponent might take advantage of the time to Check you and you might risk losing your ability to do your special Castling move. Castling is somehow sublime, you bring the Rook ‘in front’ of your King and win some time to rearrange the whole game.
Remember that your opponent is yourself so you wouldn’t feel happy for a double loss. Your objective is to CheckMate, to make your final decision, to bring out the epilogue for your multiple interferences.
However, sometimes you will want to resign, to declare a tie and put all your gaming pieces back on their places (or worse, mess them back inside the chessboard).
I am currently reading Dawkins’s controversial book ‘The God Delusion’, which can partly be seen as a book of motivation for people searching for divine answers. As atheistic as Dawkins is, he believes that all the things which appear to lack an explanation (Nature, Universe, ‘miracles’) are simply things which have not been discovered/researched/understood yet. Even though i have my own conservative attitude towards some of the issues raised in this book (and i haven’t finished it yet, so i cannot draw a final conclusion), i found this main idea similar to the moment when we find ourselves in doubt. We have a question, we have no clue about the answer. What shall we do? Choose or Forget about it? Or maybe choose to forget about it?
We shall try to answer for ourselves, we shall say ‘To be’ to any thoughts that dare to claim priority. Alternatively, we shall leave the doubt without a decision and transform it into the world’s most famous question. Our very own world’s very own most famous question.
Legend:
Queen=Reality
Pawn=Boring Daily Duties
Knight=Enthusiasm (?) Frenzy (?)
Bishop=Intuition
King=Reason
Rook= Chance
