Saturday, February 7, 2015

Response Blog

This is a response blog to Learning how to play the “GAME” Posted by Sum Of Her Parts

When I read her blog I quickly realized that I was a pawn piece on other peoples chessboards and my own chessboard was on back order. Yup that's what happens when you order offline. Lol

Now for an English lesson. 

pawn
\ˈpn, ˈpän\
noun
  • 1 : one of the chessmen of least valuehaving the power to move onlyforward ordinarily one square at atime, to capture only diagonallyforward, and to be promoted to anypiece except a king upon reaching the eighth rank
  • 2 : one that can be used to further the purposes of another
OriginMiddle English pown, fromAnglo-French peounpaun, fromMedieval Latin pedon-pedo footsoldierfrom Latin ped-, pes foot —more at foot.
First use14th century
Okay back to what I was saying, I underlined the definition I fell underneath on a regular basis. For a while I was oblivious to the fact that I was merely a pawn transitioning to other pieces believing that eventually I would be something more like a queen or a bishop but nope I was only a pawn. I didn't really understand that I had to acquire my own board and pieces and start my own game until recently, but I have retired all my pawns into an old shoe box and lit it on fire. Life truly is like playing chess and each one if us is striving to capture that something. Whether it's something worldly such as money or spiritually like gaining a closer walk with God, we're all on this board but some of us are placed in positions with only one choice that does not allow for flexibility. When I reference myself as being a pawn on many peoples board I'm assuming all responsibility for playing that piece. I went along with continuously being misused, lied on, ignored, demeaned and all that. But now? Now it's a different season, a new board with its new newness scent, smelling all good lol. I know I'm not the only one whose been a pawn, but I know that in chess there's more than one round. So I'll see you at the next meet. 

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