+1 glad you enjoyed.

I sent this sweet story to my millennial daughters who are a bit too entitled. Thank you!

Love it!, Thanks brother Dan...

I'd say that this Gulch is just such a place to be valued.

Lot of messages in the story and that is one of them.

What this really displays is just how so many in this world are creeps and scammers. You can be sure both the used car lot and the pawn shop were very well aware of the real value but wanted to screw the young girl.

Another moral from this story: you are worth different amounts to different people. You are worth what you are being paid by your employer. You are worth what your spouse or children think of you. You are worth nothing to the elitist. You are worth fighting for to the Marine.

My brother is a narcissistic ass, and he's unfortunately taught his youngest son how to be one too. The last time I visited him (about 20 years ago), his youngest, a teenager, told me he felt other people should appreciate him as much as his father did. I told him that the adulation of others is based on the lies only you know, and that the appreciation most important was when you can look in a mirror, and see that the person who knows the secrets no one else does is honestly convinced you've done the best you can. After that, my brother wanted his kids to have no further contact with me.

I think you are right.

Look for joy in the right places. Never comply.

You're either in the wrong place, or you believe you're worth more than you really are.

Many people, today, have been fooled into believing this.

why do I think that was penned by Ayn Rand. Maybe because it is so appropriate today.

You've got that right!

"But to win it requires your total dedication and a total break with the world of your past."
-- John Galt's speech, "Atlas Shrugged"

It is so rare to see something with insight and truth. Especially within the current world circumstances.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you!!!

Love this doc. I know I have read it before. The world you desire can be won , it exists , it’s real ,
It’s yours”

that was great ....“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of people be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved integrity. Do not lose your knowledge that our proper estate is an upright posture,
an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it's yours.”