Chess Pieces Of Life

I was thinking, and my thoughts coupled with what DorkAlert brought up about the significance of Tetris pieces to our personalities made me wonder.  I mean, a lot of games and pieces within these games mirror our lives.  Or at least we can be generally put into categories of what piece we are.

Take the game of chess.  I think this is definitely one of those games.  The pawns, for instance.  They are no doubt the weakest piece aside from the king.  They can only move one space at a time, can only take diagonally, and remain at a face-off if another pawn is in front of it.  Yet, it can also be the most important piece in a game, because when it reaches your opponent’s back line, it evolves, changes into another piece.  So the pawns are ultimately the kind of people who are in the background most of the time, not considered of very much importance, but who can, though rarely, come through with a very great surprise/breakthrough in their personality.

The bishop is next.  They move diagonally, and can only remain on the color square that they begin on.  A piece can be targeted, but there is always a triangle area that the bishop’s aren’t able to breech.  The bishops, therefore, represent the kind of people who are individuals within the confines of conformity.  They go against the grain, yet are bound within it.  And they see that, and long to be part of that true individuality, but they can’t break free of what they are.

Okay, that’s about all I can muster right now.  I’ll come back to this entry later on.