Moses Supposes His Police Record Including Murder and Attempted Liberation of a Nation Aren't Roses

Looking back as a child, there were so many things we would think, wouldn't it be great if...? But it seemed so hopeless to keep even thinking and wanting for so much, like I should just walk on and be reasonable and why should I even bother with such things if it is such a colossal and pointless waste of time?

There is so much to be done right now already. What good does it do to keep hungering and wishing for things that cannot be and I have no way to even begin to know how to reach them or find out more?

And so life would continue mostly in exactly the way that I knew, never straying too far beyond what I already had or expected. And as time passed, I might think, well that was nice to think about back then but it certainly was a waste of time to even feel that way, wasn't it? Even if I was to take it seriously, there wouldn't be anything to actually be done about such outrageous wishes, so I might as well just go ahead and chuck it instead of letting the hunger rot on a dusty shelf causing me so much sadness as I look at it over the years again and again.

Even if I do keep it there on the dusty shelf it will be exactly the same as if I throw it away, because this hunger for things is just a cute picture that can't actually do anything. What difference does it even make if I bother to hold on to such a useless picture or not?

Surely in the future, I will look back on my time I have spent continuing to look at my outrageous ideas sitting there, and think, ah, it was a waste of time just as I thought it would be, and life has kept going on anyways with the things that are real and important of course.

Perhaps Moses felt that way so many times, living in the desert for forty years, completely exiled from Egypt. He tried to deliver his own people but they said who died and made you king? Moses would think his dream of freeing his own kind was a nice idea but that's not the kind of thing that's actually going to ever happen.

Abraham talked with God and made a deal with him, but I'm not Abraham I'm Moses, a random sheep herder now, who can't even talk properly. It's nice here in Midian with my new family. It's not so bad, in fact it's pretty good.

So Moses did go to Egypt. It was pretty nice, and he sent some papyrus cards home from the gift shop. He even got to see Pharaoh's Palace during the Open House!

Moses always remembered those crazy, wild days of youth when he was young and free and went across Egypt in a VW Chariot, going Camel Tipping and murdering a taskmaster who was attacking his brethren, in order to free the Hebrews. Those were the days when God was moving, they really were! It was so great back then. Maybe someday they're be good times like that again where God shows up and the Hebrews will be free. Yup.

And he told his grandchildren about it sometimes as they had a nice sheep leg by the campfire.