Cheesing so hard right now

I have been playing the occasional game of computer chess for the past 3 years now so, naturally, I consider myself an unparalleled chess master who could easily dismiss any opponent. This was my perception of myself when 13 year old challenger Zahid stood up to the board and challenged me to a humble match. My knights bursted out of the starting gates taking his queen by the third move. After 5 minutes of play I was the heavily favored player to take the crown with his defences heavily battered and mine virtually untouched. His grim situation was quickly salvaged as the game was scrapped due to the serving of dinner. I was assured by my new friend that the whole fish we had contained no bones so, being the trusting fella I am, I bit half of the fish in one bite. The fish, in fact, did have bones and not a single one was removed. I now faced the predicament of not wanting to be rude and so had to eat all the bones I had bitten; well played Zahid. However my main man then proved to be more than your average trickster. When I asked him what he wanted to be and why he nearly brought a tear to my eye when he explained why he, like me, wanted to be a doctor. When he was just a young boy his parents suffered a serious illness resulting in them no longer being here. His family was too poor to afford a doctor so he wants to gain the skills to help families like his and save another little boy's parents so they do not have to go through the tragedy he had to live through. To see this reaction from a 13 year old to such a curve ball that was thrown at him was truly inspiring and I was truly shocked by this boy. From one so young to possess this strength to grasp the chance he was given by Future Hope with two hands rather than becoming bitter with the world and facing the alternate reality,which is not quite so bright to say the least, is something for all to admire. I see in this boy a true success story in the making - coming 1st in his class for the past two years he seems to be one who has determined his reality for himself and the support he has around him is one that does in fact provide him with future hope. After dinner he beat me in chess in four moves. Kolkata has thrown me a pretty blatant contrast to the dimness of the sadness felt from the death seen yesterday and has given me a lot to process. This was a good day.

Tim Burns