LOVE ALL TO WIN ALL
Two men were playing chess and sat hunched over the board hours after hour. At length they grew weary. One of the players became so exhausted that he began to doze. In this condition, he was somewhat startled to hear the chess pieces talking with one another.
“I grow a little tired,” said a pawn to his fellow, “of being moved about on this board like an automation. It’s an infringement of my freedom of choice.”
“What bothers me,” responded the other, “is that nothing is ever settled. The antagonists struggle hard to win, but when the game is ended, the players start all over again.”
“I never could understand,” interposed a third, “what they think they’ve won when they capture few pieces of wood, and beleaguer a wooden king.”
A knight had overheard this conversation, and he contributed his thought, “I don’t think the players know what else to do with their lives than to play make-believe games are of no consequence to anyone.”
“It’s too bad that our roles aren’t reversed,” said a nearby bishop. “If they were wooden figures and we were men, we’d put them to better use, don’t you think?”
“They are always trying to win something,” vouchsafed the first pawn, “but when they do, what have they got – at most, a temporary satisfaction.”
At this point the dozing player awoke and found that he had lost the game.
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Two men were playing chess and sat hunched over the board hours after hour. At length they grew weary. One of the players became so exhausted that he began to doze. In this condition, he was somewhat startled to hear the chess pieces talking with one another.
“I grow a little tired,” said a pawn to his fellow, “of being moved about on this board like an automation. It’s an infringement of my freedom of choice.”
“What bothers me,” responded the other, “is that nothing is ever settled. The antagonists struggle hard to win, but when the game is ended, the players start all over again.”
“I never could understand,” interposed a third, “what they think they’ve won when they capture few pieces of wood, and beleaguer a wooden king.”
A knight had overheard this conversation, and he contributed his thought, “I don’t think the players know what else to do with their lives than to play make-believe games are of no consequence to anyone.”
“It’s too bad that our roles aren’t reversed,” said a nearby bishop. “If they were wooden figures and we were men, we’d put them to better use, don’t you think?”
“They are always trying to win something,” vouchsafed the first pawn, “but when they do, what have they got – at most, a temporary satisfaction.”
At this point the dozing player awoke and found that he had lost the game.
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