Nicks a Nihilist...he must be exhausted.

In his article Johathon Flaum describes a story that his fifth grade classmate had written. The story basically involves a Tiger who is stuck in an infinite amount of cages and when he escapes one, he only finds himself within the confines of another. This story, understandably, had an adverse affect on the psyche of a fifth grade version of Johnathon Flaum, and the story, in is point of view, an expression of how life actually is. Flaum writes, “Nick’s lesson is this: there is nowhere to run! This is our situation in a nutshell.” The writer believes that we as humans are perpetually stuck within this cage that is both “a prison and a home”. We like the comfort of what we know, however, we all want to break out of our comfort zones and better ourselves as people and do something meaningful with our lives. We need to “dig” our way out of this sequence of cages and get to the bottom if what our true potential as human beings is, and to do this we must defeat the notion of comfort that this original cage has for many people. Only then can we see what our true authentic form is, both intellectually, and personally. To sit inside the cage would be to just wither up and die, and to not truly understand what our full potential is.