Please Read These Words

Try the soup.  It’s full of vitamins…  and some love too.  Go climb up the hillside afterward,  and look down the other end of the canyon.  There you’ll see another soup-eater scrambling vigorously to get his hand over the ledge.  Don’t be afraid to help out.  Don’t be afraid to jump boulder to boulder, working your way closer to the struggling arm and shoulder.  The sweat drips off both of you, the sun glinting off the canteens and ascention hooks.  You’ll see the eyes of gratitude.  You’ll see a chance for more soup after the rescue.  There’ll be plenty at the banquet in the rolling grassy valley–like a Swiss postcard.  You’ll both hike down hand in hand and stroll up the cobblestone walk, entering the cozy A-frame for the cocoa and hearty soup.  Suddenly you’ll realize that the answer was there all along.  The secret to all of life’s little or bigger dilemmas.  The solution was in your willingness to try the soup.