As adults, our monsters become very real—taking such forms such as financial ruin, loneliness, job loss, sickness, and death. As adults we've come to really believe that monsters can “get us” and that we will be devastated by this. Somehow a game that started with a built-in safety valve and the inability to stop laughing ends up in stress, depression, and anxiety. Not coincidentally, as our bodies get older, our sense of self becomes more established, and our propensity to experience mental suffering grows too.
