There used to be a saying from my younger years about people who always make excuses: “It is only a child who doesn’t want to go to school that says there is a lion on the street.” Back then, I considered it a somewhat ‘stupid’ saying. Come on! Lion? How did a lion come into this equation of a little child wanting to miss school? Perhaps a bully or better yet, the rain would have made more sense. Grown up now, I have come to see the thinking behind this saying. We are figuratively ripping out imaginary lions from our …
