The Noble Knight

“Life is a chess match. Every decision that you make has a consequence to it”. I sat by my window, with so much thought in my head. I stood up after a while and walked straight to the mirror, looked at myself and realised how many qualities I have, how distinct I was, and how unique and important I was. I was known for making unexpected moves, I had peculiar traits and I knew it. I always got comments like, “your character is unpredictable and that makes you dangerous”. I thought deep about it today, but I realised that it doesn’t only make me dangerous, it makes me a Knight. People always said that my quirky nature was very displeasing but that’s what makes me attractive, that’s what stands me out in the crowd. Who knows, quirky routes might be the key to most life situations.

I got tired of standing and walked over to the kitchen to make myself a burger, then I thought, why try to break the wall when I can jump over it and I realised that, that was what I had been doing all this while. Life isn’t that difficult you know. If you just look deeper and deeper you’d see clear solutions to your problems and instead of creating another mess, you would avoid them and get away from the one you’ve found yourself in. It’s been a while since I did some self-reflection, I said to myself. While in my thoughts, I was done making my burger. I walked over to the fridge to get some cool lemonade because boy! the weather was extremely hot. Took my snack to the table to do more self-reflection.

A little confusion and erratic behaviour are sometimes good you know because you become unpredictable and your behaviour inconsistent. Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t entirely good but it can come in handy sometimes. In life, not everyone should be able to predict your next move, acting a little confused in some situations in life can save you a whole lot of stress. Trust me that is my super power. I don’t think you can kill me easily. But then I value collaboration. No man is an island. I respect team work and trust me, it saves you a lot of stress. So long as the goal is to positively achieve something, I’ll give you my all. I’m always actively involved and I appreciate diversity. I have to be active and engaged from the start to get whatever work it is done. I’m also very plain and honest and thereby I detest being lied to or played. Life is that simple but unfortunately dishonesty makes it quite difficult. Imagine a world of honest people… Boy oh boy!

Almost done with my snack I get a text from my friend Terry, the text said, “I think maybe you should just observe than participate, that doesn’t mean you are not still part of the team”. I laughed so loud and it dawned on me, I can’t just be an observer. Off sidelines, I have very little value, I can’t function when I’m out of the action, no it doesn’t work that way. Think of it this way, you have a job but you are not part of the action of that job, your just observing rather than taking part. I would be miserable and that is what Terry is trying to make me? No way. I rather not even be in a team where I am sidelined. But when I’m in a centralised outpost I feel and become very essential and ready to pounce on any opportunity that comes my way. Once I’m ready to pile in you’ll know it, I’m that plain and easy to work with and understand. My principles are very simple. I texted Terry back and told him I’m leaving the team. You can’t dull my shine I laughed to myself.

Ok now i’m done with my snack, I went into the garden to take a little walk and get some fresh air despite the very hot weather. I was hoping to get a little breeze across my skin. I took an umbrella with me tho ‘cos the sun was pretty annoyed and I wasn’t going to fall prey to sunburn when I’m most definitely not the one who upset you, Mr Sun, I chuckled. Walking and touching the flowers as I passed by I began to think again, I’m a Multitasker. I enjoyed it as well and come to think of it, it sounds pretty weird but I couldn’t help it. I love getting a lot of work done at the same time. I’m also very strategic and tactical in my work and in the way I operate. I’m a very careful thinker and you can’t fool me easily. Even with the littlest things, I think carefully about them. But at the same time, I’m also very enigmatic, I’m quite mysterious and difficult to understand or interpret and I become this when it’s necessary.

You know, I believe every human being on earth is a pawn. Just as each pawn in chess has its characteristics, so do humans and it would amaze you what pawn you have similar traits with. This little self-reflection has brought to my notice what pawn I am and with each unique character, you can adapt to life and solve life problems amicably. They have their downsides yes, but look at the bright side. The truth is, like I said earlier, life is like a chess match. You play to win and if you snooze, you lose.

Each pawn is unique but I chose to be a NOBLE KNIGHT.