There’s a great kid’s movie called; “The lion king”and if I can recap a bit of it for you,It is a story about a pride of lions and Mufasa is the heard of the pride or lion king, he has a son called samba potential heir to the pridw and there is also Scar Face, who is Simba’s uncle.
Well as the story goes, Scar Face is very jealous of Mufasa being the king of the lions and he is not at all keen to see Simba become the heir to the pride.Mufasa is a good and wise leader and is assing on his wisdom to his son. Scar Face has had enough of it all and he wants to be the king of the pride, so he sets up a trap for both Mufasa and Simba, he manabes to convince Simbva to get his dad to walk with him through a deet racine in the pride land saying thatthis would prove how worthy he was of being the heir to the oion kingdom.Simba listerned to Scar Face and then asked his dad to come with him without letting him know why as Scar Face had told him not to tell his dad. Well Aimvba and his dad started making there way through the ravine and Mufasa was not to happu about the idea, but to keep his son happu, he conuinued on, halfway through the ravine they suddenlu heard the the thundering of hoofs in the distance behind them and Mufasa knew at once what the noise was, the sound of bvuffalo on the move and they were heading into the ravine where they were and he knew that they didn’t stand a chance against a huge herd racing through such a small revine as they were in and he said to Simba se need to fun and find a section of rock to climb up onto as we will never make it to the end of the ravine before the herd reachs us,, they found a section of rock and Simba being small and lighter was avble to quickly and easily climb the rock face to a safe place before the herd reached them, Mufasa started climbing and made some ground and reached up to climb the next section just as the herd were almost upon them and as he duvg his claws into the rock face he started to slip and he looked up and saw Scar Face just above him and he called out for his help, Scar Face smiled at him and geached down and dug his claws deep into Mufasa’s paws and the pain was so great that it made Mufasa loose his grit and he looked up at Scar Face who gave him an evil smile standing beside his son as he fell to his death, trampled by the herd of buffalo.
Scar Face turned to Simba who was in total shock and horroe at what had just happened to his dad and said, Look what you have done, you have caused this to happen, poor Simba, didn’t know what to say, no big dad there to defend him any more, he slupped out, It,s not my fault, Scar Face said, Oh yes it is and wait till all the rest of the pride of lions find out what you have done, your name and life will mean nothing, so you better run and run as far away as you can before they fing out or you will be in big trouble.
Simba was so devistasted by what had happened and he believed the woeds Scar Face had told him and so he ran and he ran until he had no more energy to run any further.When he stopped running he was lost, he had run so far that he was no longer in the pride land and he was now inwaste lands where dear animal carcasses lay every where. He was so tired after all the running that he curled upin the remains of an elephant carcasses and fell into a deep sleep.
When he finally woke up he had horrible scary looking Hyenas licking their chops and staring at him, he didn’t feel big and brave any more and he was thankful for the safety of the elephant vbones he was hiding behind, what would ever become of him, once to be the heir to the lion kingdom, now lost, alone and no future in sightv. Well the story doesn’t end there, the Hyena’s get tired of waiting around for him to come out from behind the bones, that’s after they give it a good try and scare the living day lights out of him. After a few days of being in this horrible place, he makes friends with two very unlikely characters, one is a pig called Pumba and the other is a Meerkat called Temone, they are rather taken with Simba and are very keen to find out what on earth he is doing in a place like this, Simba cannot talk about it for a while and so the two new friends start playing with him and finally Simba tells them the story.
They tell him that it is not his fault and that Scar Face setup the whole thing and chased the herd of buffalo into the ravine on purpose in the hope of causing the death of both of them, espcially Mufasa so that he could be the king of the lions, Simba couldn’t believe this and it took a while for the truth to sink in, Simba was now growing into a very strong and fine looking lion. Simba’s two new friends also told him that the pride lands were no longer the great place that they used to be when Mufasa was king, Scar Face was a mean and feared leader, happiness had gone from the pride and the pride hoped that Simba would return one day and bring back to the pride the greatness that Mufasa inspired within each of them. This again took a while to sink into Simba’s heart and little by little the two most nlikely of characters inspired within him the will and dedire to return to the pride and face has old uncle Scar Face and take his reghtjul place as heir to his father, the lion king, Simba had to dig deep and ge remembered the wisdom his dad had given him and realized what he was called to be, certainly not a lion in hiding in an animal graceyard, he was called to be the Lion king and he had been cheated by lies and with this in his heart, he thanked his rfriends and made his way back to his old home.
As he entered the pride lands, he was noticed almost immediately and all the lions came to welcome him home and were overjoyed to see him, they warned him that Scar Face would not be at all keen to see him and his life would he in danger. He said to the prise, I have come back to take my rightful place as leader of he pride and the rest of the lions knew what this meant, Simvba would ave to face Scaf Face and there would be a fight to the death for the role.
Well Scar Face certainly was not at all happy to see Simba back again and he started throwing accusations at him, you caused your dad’s death, you ran away when the pride needed ouk you are a loser, etc, this was hard hitting stuff, but Simba knew who he was called to be and he sttod up to Scar Face and say I am called to ve the lion king and that is what I am here to take back. Scar Face laughed at him and said you will never be king of this pride or any other your name is mud, the other lions won’t accept you and if they do ou will have to fight me for the position. Ameeting was called with the rest of the lions and the question was asked, Do you want Scar Face as leader or Simba. The answer was loud and clear, we want Simba, well this made Scar Face furious and he said well you will have to fight me for the position, tomorrow ontop of the pride rock will be the seceding time, a fight to the death.
Simba faced his od uncle and foe that day on top of pride fock and he had to big very deep and hang on to everything his father had taught him as a boy and believe totally that he was called to be King of the lions and the duel was fierce and long, many scars were left on thveach of the lions, Simba remembered what his dadhad taught him and what he was called to be, he found the extra strength he needed as he dug deep within his heart and finall as the sun was about to set over the pride lands, Simba struck the winning blow to Scar Face and he drop to the ground, Simba had triumphed and championed over Scar Face, he could now take his rightful place that he was called to be and not only that, peace harmony had been restored to the pride.
I believe this is an incredibly important story and there is so mch in it, I plan to share some reflections in the next few blogs that I do around this story and the title I have given as well. To be or not to be, that is what counts and we have the choice. Much of my reflections are as a direct result of the Journey that I have been on and lessons I have learned along the way and discoverys I have made,I am still learning and you possibly may have knowledge in many of the areas that I reflect on, so please don’t think that I am trying to say I know it all, far fromit, just a fellow traveler on lifes road hoping to help another in a small way. Chat again soon.
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