Life is Like a Chess & English a Very Strange Language
Life is like a Chess
By: Francis Angelo C. Erigbuagas
All say “how easy it is to live”. It is a strange phrase to come from the mouths of people who have had enjoyed living. They do not know what really life is. They assume that their goals for their life are material prosperity, popular success, and the pursuit of happiness, as the world defines it.
Yet it is a very plain elementary truth, that the life, fortune, success and the happiness of every one of us and those who are connected with us, do depend upon knowing the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than the game of chess.
Life is like chess, a game which has been played for untold ages, everyman and woman is a player of his or her own play. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the incidents or events of the world, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. To the man who plays well in the game, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And the one who plays ill is checkmated, with haste.
We all may acquire and comprehend the world around us as our experience of physical objects, but it would be a mistake to limit ourselves to the conventional thoughts indentured by our stubbornness towards a good play.
English a very Strange Language
By: Francis Angelo C. Erigbuagas
There is no ham in hamburger, no egg in eggplant, and neither pine or apple in the pineapple. French fries were not invented in France; nor English muffins invented in England. We sometimes take English for granted, but if we examine its inconsistency we find that, quicksand pulls you down slowly, boxing rings are square, and a mouse deer is neither a mouse nor a deer.
If the plural of foot is feet, and tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of phone booth be phone beeth? If the buyers bought and the teacher taught, why didn’t the preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what
By: Francis Angelo C. Erigbuagas
All say “how easy it is to live”. It is a strange phrase to come from the mouths of people who have had enjoyed living. They do not know what really life is. They assume that their goals for their life are material prosperity, popular success, and the pursuit of happiness, as the world defines it.
Yet it is a very plain elementary truth, that the life, fortune, success and the happiness of every one of us and those who are connected with us, do depend upon knowing the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than the game of chess.
Life is like chess, a game which has been played for untold ages, everyman and woman is a player of his or her own play. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the incidents or events of the world, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. To the man who plays well in the game, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And the one who plays ill is checkmated, with haste.
We all may acquire and comprehend the world around us as our experience of physical objects, but it would be a mistake to limit ourselves to the conventional thoughts indentured by our stubbornness towards a good play.
English a very Strange Language
By: Francis Angelo C. Erigbuagas
There is no ham in hamburger, no egg in eggplant, and neither pine or apple in the pineapple. French fries were not invented in France; nor English muffins invented in England. We sometimes take English for granted, but if we examine its inconsistency we find that, quicksand pulls you down slowly, boxing rings are square, and a mouse deer is neither a mouse nor a deer.
If the plural of foot is feet, and tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of phone booth be phone beeth? If the buyers bought and the teacher taught, why didn’t the preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what