Challenges

I really do believe that when you have your own children, it makes you wiser - I don't mean necessary more intelligent - but definitely wiser. Today I was thinking about challenges and as human beings, we crave opportunities to be challenged - whether we realize it or not. In the working world...employees will take on huge challenges to a. test themselves... and b. prove themselves - and I mean in the way as prove yourself to your own self - not because you are trying to impress your boss but because you want to impress yourself. I do this while I run... I am going to run 2 miles at a 6 minute pace...I am going to sprint the last 50 yards...etc. A challenge. Male gorillas in the wild will challenge another male gorilla for territory...isn't every part of the jungle all the same? Chase today was trying to get himself onto the train table - not because he was told to but he had never done it before, and wanted to prove that he could. I was hesitating on helping him because I think he wanted to do it...he struggled...one leg...his body...the other leg...and he was successful. Where would our world be without opportunities for challenge?