The stages of life I could only explain what is similar to learning to play a board game, while some or many might disagree or agree, you start out by knowing nothing but as you grow and get older you begin to experiment and figure things out, learning from what you, see, hear, touch and feel.

A beginner now hooked and ready to learn and grow, a pawn doing its best to catch up and grow like everyone else.

And just you begin to think you have it all figured out, there comes along another equation or pawn thrown into the mix, it's different but you welcome it. Soon enough as problems keep coming, you begin to become a knight battling to stand your ground against unknown problems and strategies that you can't seem to solve completely. Stressing about what to do, as your pawns being to fall one by one to the had of a master, of someone who's more experienced. But as time goes on the things you learn and the problems you need to solve get a bit easier, you're more experienced than you once were, you can handle it.  

During the last stage of your game, while you can't solve every problem you face, you've grown wiser, you've grown in your own way, you don't need to solve every problem you face. All you have to do is let time take its course, and in that time you will find the openings you've been searching for. Most don't find all of the solutions throughout their lives, but they know enough to make their own, it might lose you a pawn or two, while it might make you open to an attack, you've found a solution. 

We are all pawns in a game of confusion, equations, and answers, playing out our own lives for the world to sit and watch. Mistakes will be made, solutions will be lost, and games will be played out for those willing to stop and view, for those who are willing to learn from the masters.

For life is a game, and the pawns must play out their roles.