 Animals in a cage, you've seen this in a zoo or TV, animals in a cage, you've seen them pace frantically back and forth in the cage, often stationary swaying their heads or banging their bodies and heads up against the bars or the walls. Animals do this to appease the inner pain of being denied their real life. That's why they do it. They know that they were not born to live in a cage, their wildness will never let them make peace with their confinement. Neither will yours. Every human has their own version of pacing up and down in the cage, banging their heads up against the limitations that others have created for their lives. Mental and emotional cages other people have constructed for us to live in. And we pace up and down inside that incarceration believing that that's the size of our lives. And we stay there for decades, in my case, believing that that is as good as our life could possibly be. But something inside you knows different. And caged people marry partner up with caged people. And they raised caged children in captivity. And generationally, it goes on.