How healthy lifestyle imitates chess!!

I just finished this book and all I can say is "WOW!". One might think that this book is all about chess but it is not. You don’t need to know how to play chess to read this book though some background historical knowledge would really make this book gripping.

Rather than talk about how life imitates chess, I’m going to talk about how a healthy lifestyle relates to chess.

The game of chess has three stages – opening, middle game and end game. How you play the opening and the middle game decides how you end up with the end game. The objective of the game, of course, is to win. What is ‘winning’ in life? Many people would definitely have many things to say in response to this question. But think about it for a moment. What is it that you really need to have when you are old? I would say that being healthy is far more important than anything else during later years in our life. All the money in the world will not relieve you of the pain and suffering that people go through when they have kidney problems, arthritis, lung disease, diabetes, etc.

Unless you play the opening and middle game well in chess, your end game will not be in your favor. Relating this to life, if you don’t maintain a healthy lifestyle in your early years and in your 30s and 40s, you will not be happy and healthy in your later years. I’m no doctor. You don’t need a doctor to tell you to adopt healthy lifestyles and stay healthy. You can see that obesity and diabetes are killing people around the world. Let’s take a preventive approach. Let’s eat healthy and promote healthy lifestyles to people around us. If there is one good thing you want to do in your life, make sure you change someone else’s life to be healthy.

In short, play your opening and middle game in life well. Eat healthy and stay healthy. Staying healthy will not only bring happiness to you but for others around you as well.