(A Mother’s Day Dialogue.)

A lioness walks up to one of her cubs, who is sitting off to the side of the others playing. “Why aren’t you playing with your siblings?”

“Because I can’t win.”

“The goal isn’t to win, it is to have fun and learn certain skills.”

“But I never win… “

“The skills you learn are what you need to survive. Maybe it would help if you got a little angry.”

“I don’t want to get angry… I don’t like who I become.”

“Who you become? But, we are our truest self when we are angry and afraid. The thing to fear is who we become when we are sitting idle with no needs to pursue.”

“I don’t understand.”

“When you are hungry and need to eat, you are in your truest form. When your belly is full and you are looking for ways to pass the time you are free to explore yourself in different ways.”

“Is that bad?”

“It’s not bad, but it is important to not lose yourself to fantasies.”

“It’s just so frustrating, and not fair.”

“Fair? I don’t know this word. Where did you hear it?”

“People coming through in their machine used it as they talked about how we were being hurt by their machines. They said it wasn’t fair.”

“They wouldn’t talk like that if they ever got out of their machines.”

“Why not?”

“Because their fear and anger would remind them of who they really were. They built those machines because they didn’t like who they were when they were angry and afraid. Those machines protect them from the real world.”

“We should make such machines.”

“No! Never! Those machines only delay the inevitable. Reality will always come to claim it’s domain. There was a species before them a long time ago. They too built machines to protect them from the real world.”

“Where are they now?”

“They don’t exist anymore. Reality caught up with them, and they were so lost and confused as to who they really were from years of hiding behind their machines,.. they couldn’t survive.”

“I think I will go play now.”

“Good idea. Let yourself get angry. You might not like it at first because you cannot control it, but over time you will learn to direct that energy and you will value it much more…

It is really the most important skill you will learn while playing…

If you don’t learn how to use such energy, you always be less than those who do.”

“Okay. Thanks Mom.”