The film Tchou Tchou is about two children who find themselves with a difficult problem. A dragon appears, and the children hide from it by building a small castle. When problems come up in our lives, often our first response is to hide from them, but as the children find out, hiding is only a temporary solution. So they get more creative, trying to build roadsigns to misdirect the dragon, but he eventually catches on. Then they build an even bigger castle, but the dragon smashes it down. When all hope seems lost, the children have an idea: they bring in some extra blocks and transform the dragon into a train, and their worries are over.
When we're faced with extreme difficulty, we often feel that there's nothing we can do but try to build bigger castles, but even a fortress can't keep us safe indefinitely. Only when the children see their problem for what it truly is can they find a way to overcome it. They use that same childlike creativity that lets kids see animal shapes in a cloudy sky. As adults, we have to be willing to take hold of our problems and see them for what they are. Only then will we really be able to solve them, and you can bet that it'll take some creativity.
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