When monkeys raised in captivity, trapped their entire lives, are released from concrete and cages into open green spaces, they do not always know what to do.
One monkey, when released, paces back and forth on the narrow strip of concrete outside his trap door. He can't manage even the grass just beyond the concrete. He tries it out, but panics, returns to the concrete, pacing, anxious, finally recedes into the trap door.
Another monkey sees the open door to his cage, knows what to do, leaps past the concrete onto the grass, rolls around, sees the endlessness of the open space before him -- and the freedom he is about to experience -- and he does not hesitate, moves into the wide open, accelerating into a new life.
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