Gambit

Most people claim that they dare to win. But they never think about losing.

To me, if you dare to win, you must dare to lose.

If you accept winning, you must accept losing.

And most beginners would lose the first time, fail the first time. And maybe even the second, third time.

You dreamed, you planned, and you were very sure that your plan was perfect.

Then you executed it wholeheartedly. Full of energy.

But not long after that, it failed. Your plan didn’t work. Your dream shattered.

You felt frustrated. You felt like a failure. You were broken. Your money lost. You felt betrayed.

After a long, gruesome period, you lifted yourself up. You started over.

You had come to realize that your failure brought something to learn about.

It was a gambit!

You prepared something so perfect to just be broken into small pieces, shattered like an expensive yet extremely fragile china falling down on a hard floor.

It was like playing chess with your first move - a gambit - of a pawn being killed immediately by your opponent.

It was your first move. But it was a pawn. And a pawn is a pawn nonetheless.

And now you have realized that.

It was never meant to survive. It was meant to be killed.

It was a gambit!

And now you say to yourself that people don’t yet see the full potential of yourself, of who you really are!

The Bishops, the Knights, the Rooks, the King, and of course your powerful almighty Queen.

Those chess pieces are the most agile and powerful, sitting and waiting at the back of the board, only to be moved when your pawns are not in their way.

Now that you have some of your pawns killed,

It is now your time to make your powerful move!

It is your time to kill!

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I am no longer a Pawn.

I am no longer a Gambit.

Now I am winning.

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Erianto Rachman