...yet it could just as easily be called any other day of the week. Indeed I think our day to day lives are somewhat like a game of chess. With each Black piece representing a different task or chore we must perform in our day, and each White piece representing a unit of time during our day.
To carry the metaphor further, you are presented with the numerous Black mundane day-to-day chore or "upkeep" pawns of which their are so many evenly spread across the board; these are the things such as the laundry, the dishes, grocery shopping, cleaning, etc., but they're slow to move across the board and it can be some time before they nab a white piece, though they will eventually.
Work takes its place as the mighty Knight piece, hopping over any and all other obstacles in your life to be maintained, letting nothing stand in its way. It will contort and wind its way around any other task in your life so that it is always a priority.
Family resides in the Bishop piece. It will snake its way around many of the obstacles in your life to be a priority, but it can still be cut off from time to time by another Black piece.
The Castles would represent your social life. Many other aspects of your life have to get out of the way, or "be planned" before they can move, and due to their cardinal nature, their route must be carefully outlined ahead of time and these plans can very often be cut off or ruined by other pieces.
Next, there's the Queen. She can represent a relationship with a spouse in your life. She has limitless power to move anywhere she wishes across the board of your life at an incredible rate, her power/priority can shift in an instant; she can be a bystander, claiming only a few pieces for her own, or the most powerful force on the board laying waste to large chunks of your life and time.
Lastly, there's the King, and he represents your own free-time. The only way he ever gets to claim some of that free time is after the White piece has waded it's way across the board, been passed over by all the other Black pieces in your life, and reaches the footsteps of the King for you to nab.
And such is the the days and weeks of our life; a constant chess game where we juggle our time versus our tasks. Where we will try to save and sacrifice as much of our White pieces as need be to keep our life running smoothly in order to reach the Black King and give ourselves the free time we wish we had more of.
That concludes my thought for today.
"It is never the shallower for the calmness. The Sea is a deep, there is as much water in the Sea, in a calm, as in a storm." -John Donne, poet (1573-1631)
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