The Tale of Two Brothers: Dare to Live

A children’s tale about two brothers who choose different paths for their life. One chooses to live without risk–hiding away in a hut so as to avoid pain, suffering, heart-ache, disease, and sorrow. The other risks everything in order to LIVE and live well.

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There once lived two brothers named Dante and Peter. They were orphaned fairly young where they lived, just outside a small village far, far away.

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Dante was the younger brother and had bright eyes behind a pair of large glasses. Peter was older and had a timid heart and a stubborn head. They were the best of friends!

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When both came of age, Dante turned to his brother, Peter, and said, “I will go into the world and put my mark on it, start a family, and work for my keep.”

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“I beg you not to leave,” Peter replied. “The world is a dangerous place. Stay here where we are isolated and live to a long life with me!” Yet Dante was determined and left anyway, bidding his brother farewell.

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Peter built a hut for himself and hid away. He knew the dangers of the world and feared the pain it could cause him. He wanted to protect himself so he could live to an old age.

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Dante, meanwhile, travelled the world.

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Dante occasionally wrote his brother, but he would never hear back.

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Dante finally returned to the village he had left. His brother Peter was there; Dante tried to run to him…

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“…in this post-modern era where ‘my truth’ is contrasted equally with Truth and raw data derided and met with vitriol: it is as difficult to convince a man of reality as it is to fill a cup that is already full.

For when he can choose to drink up his own truth and discard others at whim, the sacrosanct bows before the expedient—even in the face of overwhelming and inconvenient evidence.

For, verily, why would any but the most principled of persons choose but from the plurality of thought when to think otherwise chooses the rocky and serpentine path where a clear and prosperous one clearly lies before him?”

-Sean Dempsey, January 2021