Once the game is over

An Italian Proverb says, "once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box". Likewise, in a chess game, as in other games, like soccer, someone has to win, someone has to lose. Checkmate! Goal! Stalemate. Draw.


Losing is no doubt very painful - be it in a sports game, on the chess board or in love. The pain is there but at varying degrees.

Good news is, while pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. We can choose to suffer or to be happy. Thank God! It's a lot better to bounce back than to become a sore loser.

Love hurts, just like life's growing pains - you crawl, you walk, you run, you fall, sometimes flat on your face. But you know what, you get up and you go at it again.

I believe everything that happens to us in life is part of a grander scheme of things. Makes us stronger and wiser...

I think I'll survive this heartbreak.