Good evening steemians. It is your boy @ewuoso in the steemit-virus contest again. As usual we are to illustrate an image every week. We have to be creative about this. To know more about the steemit virus contest, please visit HERE.
The image to be illustrated below.
The image above is obviously that of a chess game. I was tempted to to illustrate the image for what it is but i thought on the other hand i thought the image might be representing something. I gave it a deep thought and i came up with an idea. i asked myself what was the goal of the game of chess? probably i will get what i need from the answer, which i did though.
According to HERE
Chess is a game played between two opponents on opposite sides of a board containing 64 squares of alternating colors. Each player has 16 pieces: 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 knights, and 8 pawns. The goal of the game is to checkmate the other king. Checkmate happens when the king is in a position to be captured (in check) and cannot escape from capture.
I do not not really know much about the game of chess because i do not play it and i have never played it before. I searched online for more knowledge on the game called chess. From what i learnt from what i searched, i discovered that the game is a game of competition as any other game is but the point i want to drive at is that the game is a game of battle that will lead to the capturing of one king in the game by another.
I want to relate this to life. The characters in the game are human beings. The way we run our day to day activities is just like that of the chess game. We always want to be ahead of one another and we go extra miles to do that.
For example
When boarding a commercial bus in lagos at a rush hour. Then it does not matter who came first. Then you are already thinking of how to chance the other person and get into the boss before him or her.
In the game of chess, one has to be careful so that he does not make a wrong move because that is what his opponent will use against him .
Another example to prove that life is about competition is that in a DSTV booth where they show football matches. You will notice that those that come late will be looking for someone that mistakenly stand up from his sit o that they would sit there. Why should this be? It is the game of chess in humans. we are always looking to take advantage of another person's mistake and use it to our advantage.
Also in our place of work we are always competing for promotions looking for another person's mistake so that we can take his promotion or beat him to the promotion. Even in the family, there is always battle of who to decide or take bigger share or who owns something
It happens everywhere. It is just the way humans are
Thank yhu for reading
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We have an absolutely extraordinary attitude in our culture, and in various other cultures, high civilizations, to the new member of human society. Instead of saying frankly to children, "How do you do? Welcome to the human race!" we are playing a game and we are playing by the following rules: we want to tell you what the rules are so that you know your way around, and when you understood what rules we are playing by, when you get older, you may be able to invent better ones.
But instead of that, we still retain an attitude to the child that he is on probation; he is not really a human being, he is a candidate for humanity. And in just this way, we have a whole system of preparation of the child for life which always is preparation and never actually gets there. In other words, we have a system of schooling which starts with grades. And we get it always preparing for something that’s going to happen.
So you go into nursery school as preparation for kindergarten. You are going to kindergarten for preparation for first grade and then you go up the grades 'til you get to high school, and then comes a time when maybe if we can get you fascinated enough with this system, you go to college. And then when you go to college, if you are smart, you get in the graduate school and stay a perpetual student and go back to be a professor and just go round and round in the system.
But in the ordinary way, they do not encourage quite that, they want you, after graduate school or after graduation, commencement as it’s called, beginning to get out into the world with a capital W. And so you know, you’ve been trained for this and now you’ve arrived. But when you get out into the world, at your first sales meeting, they’ve got the same thing going again, because they want you to make that quota and if you do make it, they give a higher quota.
And come along about 45 years of age, maybe you are a Vice President. And it suddenly dawns on you that you’ve arrived with a certain sense of having been cheated, because it is just the same life as it always felt. And you are conditioned to be in desperate need of a future. So the final goal that this culture prepares for us is called retirement – when you will be a senior citizen and you will have the wealth and the leisure to do what you always wanted, but you will at the same time impotence, rotten prostate and false teeth and no energy. So the whole thing from beginning to end is a hoax.
You are involved by and large in a very strange business system which divides your day into work and play. Work is something that everybody does and you get paid to do it because nobody could care less about doing it. In other words, it is so abominable and boring that you can get paid for doing it. And the object of doing this is to make money. And the object of making money, is to go home and enjoy the money that you’ve made. When you got it, you see, “you can buy pleasure."
And in myriads of ways, you see, you go home, you are with the wealthiest people in the world and you would think that having earned your money and go home, you will have an orgy and great banquet and so on, but nobody does. They eat TV dinner which is just a warmed over airline food and then they spend the evening looking at an electronic reproduction of life which is divided from you by a glass screen. You can’t touch it, you can’t smell it, it has no color, except maybe for very wealthy it has color. But by and large, it doesn’t. And you look at this thing and you have a strange feeling, you see, that the whole procession of grades that was leading to something in the future, to that goody, that gorgeous voluptuous goody that was lying at the end of the line never quite turns up.
And this is because from the beginning, we condition our children to a defective sense of identity. We condition the child in a way that sets the child a life problem which is insoluble. And therefore attended by constant frustration, and as a result of this problem being insoluble, it is perpetually postponed to the future. So that one lives, one is educated to live in the future and one is not ever educated to live today.
Now I am not saying that, you know, the philosophy of carpe diem, “Let us drink today, for tomorrow we die” and not make any plans. What I am saying is that making plans for the future is of use only to people who are capable of living completely in the present.
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Life is basically a competition, your loss is another person's gain and vice versa
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Yeah bro thanks for stopping by
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