Stupid Hide 'N Seek

Hide and seek is a classic game that all kids know and have hours of fun with. As children. When adults play it, the game becomes something else. Sheer silliness. Hiding ones eyes to imagine a reality does not exist is ridiculous of course. But it's quite common among adults who have not yet achieved the matter of facing truth and dealing with it up front, the matter of  adulthood and its challenges.  When you are the subject of such "treatment" it is not punitive as your "hiders" might hope and believe, it is  amusing and indeed, rather fascinating if not sad. The longer it goes on, the more difficult it is for the hider to keep up the ruse. It begs the question, how long is this going to take until the "elephant" under the carpet crashes through the floor dragging the whole mess down with it. In my experience, the hiders find it more and more difficult to avoid looking ridiculous as time goes on. And the "victim" must smile  because, when finally the Hide and Seek silliness is broken, who is going to look the more embarrassed and  foolish. Of course it is those who hide their eyes. Perhaps the hiders think their resolve can go on forever but that means only building a wall so high and so long that it cannot be scaled or its end reached. And think of the labour and stress involved in the building and maintaining of such a wall. Grown up hiders need to become seekers. They need to seek a way to take an honest look at what they try to keep hidden and to get it resolved and thus, their fears allayed. Most of what we all fear is ourselves and that one may have to make changes that are not comfortable. We are all hiders but we can be seekers and free our elephants.