Putting Out the Tarn

To exist is a human you're effectively a slave to suffering. Bad things happen to us all the time in very invarying extremities. So by being alive, you're a slave to the inevitability of suffering. Ie think of iti in second century folk in rome, when this story was written, a lion would be a very powerful friend to have. But then you think, what does becoming friends with lion? What's the metaphor there? That's emotional resilience?"