Monday the 20th I met my middle son, Thomas, at the Barnes and Noble on the other side of town. It is kind of a middle point between our homes. I ran across a book on Apostle Paul on the bargain shelf and also a good version of Marcus Aurelias. As we were talking and using our smartphones to make us smarter in our choices we got into a discussion on Stoics and were trying to see if there were any books on the earliest Stoics. There were Seneca, Aurelias, Cicero, and Epictetus. I did not see any that would be more recent now anything in between. So my son grabs the one on Epictetus and one on Aristotle.
As we were making our final selection a little girl about 7 or 8 had been sitting looking at a book with her mom on a nearby bench they have there, she got up and came over to us. She excused herself politely for bothering us, but she wanted to know if the name we had been talking about were "New Pokemon".
I do not know for sure how Thomas felt but if his reaction is any indication he felt it was as funny as I did as we both were chuckling. Then Thomas had the best comeback ever: "No they are not, but should be. These dead guys have been causing Choas for centuries". That is when we heard the mom start laughing. The young girl went back and sat down. The mom, she smile and flashed us a thumbs-up.
Not a few days later in reflection, I can see how those names sound more like Pokemon names than philosophers. Sometimes it just takes the young to remind us, that not everything is serious, there has to be fun and games or life gets boring.
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