A First Nations man had a recurring dream. In the dream, a grizzly bear would come over a mountaintop and chase him. Each time, the man would run away, barely escaping.
One day, the man was on a long bus trip. He dozed off, and had the same nightmare on the bus. But this time, the bear chased him up a tree, and the man barely escaped its claws as the bear swiped at him. The bus stopped at a rest stop, and the man was still visibly shaken.
An older Indigenous man asked him what was troubling him, and the man told the elder about his nightmare. The elder listened, looked at the man, and then walked away, laughing and laughing.
The man became very angry with the elder. He said, “Here I am. I have told you something very personal, something that’s upsetting, something that has bothered me for a long time. And you laugh at me!”
The elder looked at his new friend with kind eyes and said, "My son, the grizzly is your protector. You see, you are running from your own strength.”
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