Once upon a time there was a cad, the typical tall, dark, handsome man who carried himself highly as he walked his satisfied path, ut who wanted comformit in himself to find where he belonged.
He set out to start anew - he got on a train, got off at the end of the line, and went to find a new home and new life but knew no one in the town. He realized thall of his success had arisen out of networking and that, without his former network, he had no credentials with which to establish himself.
And so, he got a job in construction. He figured the hard work he put in here would get him noticed by one of the bosses and he would be able to move to management. But he kept on working harder than anyone with no end in sight.
Until finally one day one of the bosses approached him on the construction site. Without a word he took off the man's hard hat, and then he gestured to the sky. Before turning to walk away, he said, "Think about it."
And so, in the end, leaving the hard hat perched atop a mount of dirt the man walked out of the construction site and into the world. Life was not merely a search for success, or building of networks and friends, but a simple enjoyment of everything beautiful and unfathomable.
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The last sentence reminds me a lot of Tolstoy (in particular Prince Andrey's observations of the sky in War and Peace.) Quite good.
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