The other day I was spending some wonderful time with Flossie, my eight-year-old daughter.
We were having a rather philosophical discussion and I said, “Perhaps this is heaven right here. Perhaps heaven is a choice.”
“This can’t be heaven,” Flossie retorted. “If I fall off Cookie, I’ll hurt myself. In heaven you couldn’t hurt yourself.”
“Maybe,” I replied.
I continued to ponder it; in a world where there was no failure, no pain, no challenge, where’s the fun, I thought?
Maybe we need that to appreciate the good.
Or maybe that’s a silly belief that’s instilled in us.
Perhaps Flossie is right…
If you keep saying ‘the bad guy won’ and judging everyone who supports them as an idiot, then you are playing right into the ‘good vs evil’ fallacy.
At the South Island Show Jumping Champs late last year, my daughters won the classes they were entered in.
A while ago we were at a horse show. Zara and I walked the course, and I read the jump off and told Zara what it was.