Play allows the impossible and helps us to confront the inevitable. Death can be vanquished and life reimagined. Consider a young child at play. He may elect to take on the role of a villain for a time. Playing this character, the child is evil, despicable even, and he experiences with terror the weight which such a role imposes upon him. Then, made weary by this burden, the child suddenly casts off the villain’s cumbersome robes and dons the ethereal armor of a conqueror. He crushes the villain with the hope that he has destroyed a part of himself which is equally as formidable. Play instructs and enables the inertia of humanity, while all at once embodying life itself. It is how we live and what we live for.