The Parable of The Riverboat Captain
In a time there was a boy
who used to live upon the river. Day by day he watched the majestic boats
travel it with awe. So inspired was he by the grace of the boats upon the
beautiful river, he found that when he could make time he wanted little else
other than to watch that peaceful, endless, struggle.
How rare to know one’s path
so soon. As the boy aged, he eventually found his way aboard one of those
magnificent river boats, and so the days passed by as he labored hard and
fulfilled beside his beloved river.
Like this, the boy became a
man, and the man The Captain. One day guiding the mighty boat upon the river he
found that the mystery of it all had long since departed. He knew the bends and
the turns, master of the craft and by extension his lovely river; he glided
amongst it day by day.
The man tried fondly to
remember what it was he had once seen in the river as a boy, but alas he could
not. The magic had long since departed, and with it, what it was he once saw.
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