Sliding Elephant(s)

Narrated 'claim' of a sportsman/chessmaster whose decision affected the 'design(s)' of American outcome but generated 'equal' essays.

A tale of life-altering decision-consciousness, inspired by Mr. Destiny (Michael Caine). Enjoy, 

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Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like had it taken a different turn for the opposite while I'd been deciding between careers while a college student in New England. You see, I had a real life-choice to make during college, when I was recruited by two very different domains of Earth-society activity, one being baseball, and the other chess, and this difference has colored almost every 'facet' of modern social-media and clique-oriented consciousness in the Western-world (really).

I thought I had a dream one night during which an incendiary Green Dragon visited me with a strange premonition oriented consultation during which he/it engaged with me about the certain life-decision I'd made in college. You see, I was approached because I was a dual-talent in baseball, having great skill in both pitching and batting, and I was sought by an American team seeking some 'cool' rookie-sensation with some unusual media-market friendly 'gift' like ambidextrousness, and my pitching-batting double-skill was right up their alley. However, at the same time, I was recruited by a new American chess think-tank which would pay/train wizards and masters to compete with international champions for a modern media exposition on post Cold-War chess social-media on Earth. The Green Dragon in my dream insisted I made the 'best' choice for myself in the selection of career-path but wanted me to 'meditate' on how my life would have been drastically different had I chosen one career over the other.

When I woke from the strange premonition-dream and didn't know what to conclude, I decided to forge a special emotion-balancing 'compromise' deed and purchased a cool baseball-figurine themed chess-set/board, which I'd then use to 'meditate' on how/why I chose the career path characterizing my current life and what it offered me for happiness and vitality. As I stared at this baseball-chess set, I thought about all the symmetry/diagonals of strategy and thought and motion itself and why selecting a career for destiny may re-present a 'human' IQ regarding the 'perfection' of life's otherwise 'alien' encounters (or expression!).

JOURNAL: Would one ('someone like me') have a more 'personality'-fit life choosing chess/baseball or vice-versa, and how so?

I began to think of the nature of fortune and the human diary regarding the casting of destiny-altering decision-making and the 'thought' behind human life. Would my life have been so different had I chosen baseball/chess or vice-versa? Would a certain wife be more pleased in, say, an athletics stadium than at a chess tourney 'cathedral' or vice-versa? What do you think?

WIFE: I don't care what you chose, since you cared about both (equally) and were gifted in both; I'd still make you those tuna-quiche miniatures you love for pre-Thanksgiving Sunday football-TV eating with me (eh?).

So, I decided to visit Harvard-Square one weekend and sat down by one of the chess-wizards who agree to play random amateurs/fans/travelers who agree to pay him a small 'money-gift' in exchange for the 'wizardry' experience/challenge and simply watched him play (all day long, on Saturday/Sunday) and began to recount all the details of my life and how my psyche shifted because I had to choose baseball or chess as a career, and how my life would have been so radically...eschewed (wow).

WIFE: Like I said, baby-doll man, I don't care what you chose, since, after all, we cheer for our fave-Phillies (regardlessly)!

The point of this diary-like tale, which I'm so happy to relay, is that life is so uncertain that Destiny itself may offer us a path-curve affecting the way we conceptualize or 'dream' of the asymmetries (or elongations!) of choice-based exercise(s). In other words, perhaps my life-decision regarding baseball-chess impacted not how I viewed my fortunes...but how I expressed my 'impression' on human race extensions.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)