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Five Card Story: Back to the roots, back to the good times
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When he was a boy, his inspirational laugh, his joy when playing with other children in the park, his energy - those were the things his parents praised and valued so much about him. When he was an adult, he came to think, he had to inspire others with advice for a life full of energy and success. He didn't mind working 12 hours a day, staying in hotel rooms for long times and never getting to visit his parents and his school friends again. As cash flowed in, he first didn't miss the hours of being outside, doing nothing of importance and being calm, active and alive at the same time. But it struck him, when he found himself in an elevator going down a hotel building as people talked about his seminar which he was just about to give - they obviously didn't know his face yet. A rather short man asked the couple in front of him, if they also felt as if they were stuck and had to change things. As the tall man, the husband, responded: "Well totally. We need to find our inner child again, I guess. That's the purpose of this class for me". His wife added: "Well at least this elevator isn't stuck, just us", he knew exactly, that he was a fraud. If people thought he were a roll model for those expectations at least. Since what he had done was being more and more not the boy from then.
He finished the seminar (even though he considered cancelling his life concept as it was immediately, if not for poetic reasons... well, his sense of duty was stronger here). He quit. He walked - yes, by foot - all the two hundred kilometres to his parents. He bought a trailor by the sea and started anew - started, how he had begun.
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