Lions
Trip Start
Aug 07, 2007
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Trip End
Ongoing
Uijeongbu,
Korea Rep.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Sacha is very talented and good at what she does. She works hard and that effort brings success and reward. She is a capitalist. Ola is not as successful but expects the wealth to be distributed equally amongst all. She comes to Sacha for a share of the spoils of Sacha's efforts. Her socialist outlook borders on Communism. They are both lions that hunt in the plains of Africa. Sacha does not approve of the meat she works so hard to kill being given to others. Her efforts to secure meat for her young and her self require her to expend precious energy reserves and put her self in harms way. She resents the less successful and wishes for them to have their hands out of the cookie jar. While Ola is seen as a burden and a societal leach by Sacha, the need to support the weak, as socialism does, when able to be done in a productive manner, is a measure of a strong society. A society that realizes that not all were born equal, yet all are still able to contribute in some way shape or form without being exploited, such as how capitalism does with cheap labor, is truly on the path to equality, regardless of genetics, race, social class or any other label that are just parts of the many layers of the onion that we are.
When I run I like to meditate. I try and let my mind slip into a place of no thought. This was not the case today as I belted out some km's on the treadmill while listening to the many songs on my IPod and watching lions hunt water buffalo on the National Geographic Channel on the TV in front of me. Of course with the TV sound replaced by my IPod I couldn't help my mind from stopping a running inner dialog as can be seen above. As I ran I often tried to decide if the water buffalo that escaped the lion's jaws was more fortunate than the lion that actually made a kill. Or would I be more content with cheering for a lion making a kill and not going hungry or a water buffalo escaping and leaving a hungry lion. I guess I can be content with knowing that nature has a way of balancing hungry lions with dead water buffaloes. Although these days this balance seems to be more and more disrupted as our greed as over active monkeys wrecks havoc on the scales that mother nature has placed us on.
Tomorrow I'm going for a late evening hike with Julia. The trail will be lit this time so no worries of falling off a cliff at the worst and a sprained ankle at the least. It's late and I should go to bed.
-Thanks for reading.
