September 20, 2013
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Sometimes we like to judge and predict things by how things occur in the past. Maybe a better soccer team, and better chess player, maybe an intelligent student going to an exam.
But very few would actually look at how things were. They would feel amazed if the result they predicted did not come true and said certain players should have won, maybe the better team should have scored, but they would never actually look into the game and see actually did the weaker player or weaker team deserved the result as well?
When such thinking is combined with a false sense of ego and pride, it can become quite irritating.
I understand that mom and dad are right that you don’t have to mind the others’ businesses, but sometimes we hate them so much not because of them, but because they remind us of ourselves.
It is impossible to be perfect in chess, let alone be close to perfect, sometimes hitting the bottleneck as well in improving our chess playing skills.
but we can, perhaps, be a better man in an a lot easier way. Ego is the ultimate vain of men, and to be able to see oneself as it is, is indeed precious.
