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Now I want to read you a story.

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All right,
so let me give you a little background 

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to this story.
This story popped into my head in one 

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chunk,
like complete,

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which I thought was kind of interesting,
but it was also a story that emerged in 

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solution to a problem I'd been thinking 
about for a long time because I was 

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dealing with this guy who didn't want to
grow up.

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So he's caught in a kind of Peter Pan 
Situation and Peter Pan Pan means 

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everything.
Hey,

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pan,
like pantheistic and Peter Pan is a 

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child who won't grow up.
Now he's magical.

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Well,
okay,

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fine.
Children live in a magical world,

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right?
They're rife with possibility.

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He's magical.
He doesn't want to grow up.

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So he lives in Neverland with the lost 
boys.

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Neverland doesn't really exist in the 
lost boys are obviously boys who haven't

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managed to establish some mode of big 
and he's in constant battle with Captain

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Hook and captain hook's a tyrant,
right?

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A pirate,
a negative manifestation of the negative

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archetype of social order.
And Captain Kirk is always fighting 

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Peter Pan Because Peter Pan Represents 
childhood and vulnerability and he 

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doesn't want to be vulnerable,
so they're locked in this sort of 

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eternal battle and lots of people,
I think more commonly men but not 

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necessarily get caught in this Peter Pan
Problem.

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So I was dealing with

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person who was caught in this situation,
didn't want to grow up,

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wouldn't sacrifice childhood.

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And so this story popped into my head.
It's called Cock-a-doodle-doo.

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Once upon a time there was a man who had
a long,

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hard journey ahead of him.
He was trudging along the way over 

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boulders and through brushes when he saw
a little shiny known with big white 

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teeth in the block to pay sitting by the
side of the road,

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he was drumming on a log with two white 
bones and humming oddly to himself.

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A little gnome said,
John,

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why work so hard?
Why I walked so fast?

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Who knows if you'll ever get there?
Anyway,

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come over here.
I have something to show you.

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So John Walked off the road.
He was sick of walking anyway because 

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people kept throwing sticks and stones.
Adam little gnome said,

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I have a shiny red jewel that I would 
like to sell you cheap.

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Here it is,
and for beneath his cloak he pulled the 

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biggest ruby that the man I'd ever seen.
It must've weighed 100 pounds and it's 

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shine like the sun.

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The gnome said,
do you like it?

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It's an enchanted stone.
What will you offer me for it?

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And the man said,
I don't have much,

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much money,
but I'll give you everything I have the 

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no look displeased.
So John added,

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or I could pay some more monthly.
So the GNOME excepted.

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Fair enough.
Buy Now.

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Pay later.
Sounds good for me.

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I'm all for the installment plan.
So the man gave him all his money and 

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promise to pay the rest.
Later,

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and the gnome walk back into the Bush by
the road,

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clacking his teeth and giggling and 
twitching.

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The more of the man thought about this 
ruby and the great deal he got,

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the happier he became.
He started back on the road with a light

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heart,
but soon discovered that he couldn't 

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make much progress because 100 pounds 
was a lot to carry.

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He said to himself,
why continue anyways,

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I have what I want.

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I'll just stand here holding my ruby and
when people walk by they can see how 

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well I've already done,
so he stopped a little while.

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One of his little while later,
one of his friends came along,

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so I'm standing there,
he's fair,

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and said,
John,

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why don't you come along with me?
I've just opened a new business and I 

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could really use some help.
Come along quick.

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It will be opening soon.
Joe,

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and thought that sounded good,
but his friend was in a hurry besides 

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couldn't even see the ruby.
How could he speed along beside him?

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Where would he put his jewel?
So he said,

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thanks,
but I have to take care of my jewel.

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Maybe I'll see you later.
His friend looked at him like he was 

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crazy,
but he was trying to get somewhere 

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quick,
so it just shrugged a bit and said,

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okay,
John,

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see you later.

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Then he sped on down the road.
A little while later.

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Another friend came by and he said,
John,

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nice to see you.
I'm going back to school.

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There are lots of wonderful things to 
learn,

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great things to do.
The world is full of unsolved problems.

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I could use some company.
What would you like to come along?

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John Thought that sounded pretty good,
but this friend who looked like he was 

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in a hurry.
You sorry.

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Started standing beside the road,
holding the jewel was tiring and he 

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needed all the energy ad for that.
So he said to his friend,

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thanks,
but I have to take care of my jewel.

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Isn't it beautiful?
Maybe I'll see you later.

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His friend looked at him like he was 
crazy,

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but he was trying to get somewhere 
quick,

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so he just shrugged and said,
hope.

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Everything goes all right with you.
See you later.

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Many friends came and went in the years,
went by,

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the jewel got heavier and heavier,
but the man God more and more attached 

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to it.
The only thing was nobody seemed to 

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notice how beautiful it was.
People would rush by and talk about 

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their plans and nobody had a ruby as big
and nobody seemed likely to get A.

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Ruby is big and you think that someone 
might've had said something like at 

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least Nice Ruby,
John,

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sure wish I had one like that,
but it never happened.

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Then one day someone new came down the 
road.

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He was bent over and he was thin and his
hair was gray.

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Although he didn't look that old,
he was carrying a big dirty rock 

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carefully in his arms and he wasn't 
making much progress.

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The strange figure approached and 
glanced up at John and he grinned and 

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said,
where are you standing there so stupidly

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with a big ugly rock and you're tired.

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Old Hands.
You look pretty daft.

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I bet you wish you had a big ruby like 
the one I am carrying.

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And John Thought,
this poor man is diluted.

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He's carrying a rock it desire.
You have the ruby.

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So he said,
excuse me sir,

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but you are sadly mistaken.
I'm the one with the jewel.

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I met a little known by the side of the 
road and he sold it to me.

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I'm still paying for it,
although not so very much.

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You are carrying a rock.
The tired stranger looked annoyed.

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He said,
I didn't know what game you're playing,

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Mr you have a rock.
I have a jewel.

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The little gnome you described sold it 
to me and he said it was the only one.

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I've been carrying it for 20 years and 
I'll never let it go,

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and John said,
but I'd been carrying mine for 20 years 

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too.

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It can be just a rock rocker.
Jewel on and on.

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They argued,
suddenly out stepped a little gnome as 

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if he'd never left.
Only this time he wasn't so little.

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He was bigger and redder and menacing 
and his laugh sounded like the rattling 

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of chains.
Quit arguing you too.

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I've never seen a site quite so 
pathetic.

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You're carrying rocks,
both of you,

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and if you would have ever had the sense
to put them down for a second or two,

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you would have seen that,
oh well,

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at least you were diligent.
I played a mean trick.

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I feel bad,
so I'm going to give you what you really

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deserve.
Do you want what you really deserve?

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And John and the thin stranger nodded 
eagerly.

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Finally,
they thought you haven't seen anything 

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yet.
Throw down your rocks,

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so John and the thin stranger obeyed.
He trucked split down the middle of when

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it hit the ground outflow to river of 
ravenous white worms which rushed 

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towards the men and devoured them whole 
while they thrashed about and screamed 

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soon.
Nothing was left except a leg bone from 

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each.
The little gnome pick them up and walked

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off the road.
He sat down by a hollow log and started 

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to drop.
He drummed any waited and he hummed and 

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odd little tune picture of food feeds 
the whole hungry clan,

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the image of good mix.
The whole healthy man.

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Why walk for miles?
Why do the work?

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Just smile.
The smile,

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success after all is a quirk.
Life isn't real.

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That's the message I give.
It's easy that way.

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Plus who wants to live?

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So needless to say,
the guy that I was telling this story to

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never listened to it and things.
You really didn't go well for him for a 

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long,
long time and they really didn't go well

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for him until he was willing to give up 
some of the things he was carrying 

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along.
So he had acquired,

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for example,
a number of things that he couldn't 

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afford and the fact that he was carrying
them right,

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paying for them month after month,
man,

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he couldn't afford to get an education.
It was perfectly willing to sacrifice 

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the possibility of getting an education 
for the image of success rather than the

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reverse.
Right?

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And he was completely irritated at the 
world because he had all these trappings

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of success,
which no one he admired also admired and

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he absolutely wasn't getting anywhere 
and he thought that was tremendously 

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unfair.
But the truth of the matter was that how

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do you put down what he was carrying for
even a moment?

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Then he would have been able to get to 
where he wanted to go.

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And that's a motif that succinctly and 
dramatically describes the necessity for

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sacrifice.