Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Okay, one more fantastic fable for you today, my friends, I really love this one.

I think you will too. It's called the man and the lion. Ooh,

ASOP, you knew what you were doing. A man and a lion traveled together through the forest.

They soon began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess.

As they were disputing, they passed a statue, carved in stone, which represented a lion strangled by a man.

The traveller pointed to it and said,

See there, how strong we are, and how we prevail even over the king of beasts.

The lion replied, that statue is made by one of you men.

If we lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the man placed under the poor of a lion. One story is good until another is

told. You know what? I really started internalizing this truth, maybe a decade or so ago. So, for example, if a girlfriend would come to me

complaining about something, maybe a boyfriend or a boss, I would always, of course, side with my

friend and, you know, jump on the bandwagon. But increasingly now in generosity to myself and to

others, I love to say, you know, hmm, how could we see this

situation differently? I wonder what your boss thinks about that. I wonder what your partner

thinks about that. You know, if a friend comes to me complaining about her husband, for whatever

reason, you know, they seem they're being annoying. I go, look, is your husband stressed out? You know, it's not to

defend another person's position, but it's trying to see the whole picture. Kind of like the

lion says, well, you know, if we made the statues, you'd be, you'd be beneath us. Who's writing the

story or who's telling the story or who's reliving an experience is the

person in the moment who seems to control the power. It's one person's version. And it doesn't mean

it's the truth, the objective truth. It just means that the stone is being carved by the

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