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A game that every couple gets to play sooner or later in the course of their relationship. Unlike children games though, this game is not played to bring us closer, make us happy or to make us more loved. Its a game played to prove that we are right.
The game is simple: What came first? Chicken or egg? Choose your answer and defend it to the death. We can stretch our use of logic to the limit and sometimes even knowingly bend the truth. Failing this, we can use emotions, generalizations, suspicions and even intuition - just so we can defend our opinion.
Chicken or egg? We laugh at silly children games never realizing that they are infinitely better than our own.
Why do we spend more time proving we're right rather than working out what's wrong?
Why do we spend so much time remembering faults rather than forgiving them and starting on a truly clean slate?
Why do we spend so much effort in blaming others rather than reflecting on our own faults.
Why do we find it so hard to remember what we have and yet find it so easy to remember what we dont?
Why would we rather hurt ourselves than compromise our pride?
Why would we rather be alone and miserable than say sorry?
In the game of chicken and egg, everyone loses - families break apart, once loving relationships are laid to waste and sensible solutions discarded in the name of the unchangeable past. As the song in the Movie The Lord of War goes, nobody's right and everybody's wrong.
So what came first? We laugh at this silly question and yet fail to see the silliness of its equivalent in our relationships and everyday life.
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