2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
- Meet !!! The speakers roared, silencing the crowded concert hall. - Meet! He was a simple and unknown man, an insignificant insect, smoking the sky. But one fine day he realized that it was impossible to live like this anymore, and took part in the great game "Rat Race"! He started from the very bottom, but step by step he conquered more and more new frontiers. First Gold, then Platinum, then Ruby, and now - he is the only winner of the "rat race" in the world. So!!!! BRILLIANT RAT !!!
The crowd roared, welcoming the hero of the day, who ran out on the stage cheerfully. The fit, youthful, tanned man was waving his arms, blowing kisses, jumping up and down. When the excitement subsided a little, the Diamond Rat exclaimed:
- How glad I am to see you veterans and newcomers of the rat races! Many of you have petted me, some have petrified themselves, realizing, like me, all the hopelessness of a gray and dull existence! Do you want to know how I reached unprecedented heights ?!
- YESAAAAA! - several impressionable newcomers fainted, they were quickly wrapped in black cellophane bags by security officers, and carried out through the back door.
- So listen to the FOUR COMMANDMENTS OF RAT RACES PARTICIPANTS! - The Diamond Rat shone with a snow-white smile, played with his biceps and continued in an energetic voice:
- So, the first commandment: ALWAYS SPEED UP! Speed is our everything, without it you will not win the rat race! You cannot stop, you need to act, otherwise others will outstrip you. Therefore, you need to prepare for races from childhood, and prepare your children for them. Always hurry them up, don't give them time to think!
The pace of Brillianty's speech became a little slower and more detailed, the man began to paced the stage.
- I will tell you about an amazing experiment carried out by our charlatan scientists. They planted three palm saplings. One was not touched, and it grew by itself. The second was fertilized and watered on time. The most hardy and responsible charlatan scientists were constantly on duty around the third seedling, and day and night they urged the palm tree with shouts “let's grow faster! Absorb nutrients faster! Well, why are you digging there! If you don’t grow up now, we will leave! Oh my god, because of you we are late! Don't slow down! The most experienced grabbed the seedling and tried their best to stretch it … Amazing dedication and responsibility, right? … So what happened … A stunted bush grew out of the first seedling. From the second - a suspiciously slow and restless tree. And from the third … (the drum roll added solemnity to the pause) … FROM THE THIRD A REAL, GENUINE AND MAGNIFICENT PALMUM GREAT !!!
- AAAAAAA! - again wild delight at the sight of the image of a nutty palm tree that appeared on the screens, which energetically and quickly jerked back and forth, with all its appearance embodying the triumph of the first commandment of the rat race.
- Always speed up !!! - shouted the Diamond Rat into the microphone in a bad voice, - do not slow down, run forward quickly! Pause the race - you have to run after! Fast sex, fast food, fast sleep, life … - and the microphone turned towards the audience.
- FAST! - picked up the audience. - Life is fast, fast, fast, fast, fast, fast !!!
“The Second Commandment…” The Diamond Rat suddenly turned almost to a whisper. - THE MAIN THING IS THE RESULT. What you do today does not matter if you do not strive for results. The result is success, success is the result, effective success is a successful result, resulting in success. Never ask your children what they learned in school. Always ask only what grades they got! Always ask “what have you achieved ?!”. The main saying should be "be patient, Cossack, you will be ataman!" The more you endure and suffer, the greater the result! Happiness is an endowment from an achieved goal, there is no other happiness! How do we call someone who does not have results that are visible to everyone with the naked eye?
- Loser!
- I can not hear!!
- Loser !!!
- Louder!
-LUZE-E-E-EP !!!!
- YES! Only losers are afraid to participate in the rat race! And now - the third commandment … REST IS AN INTERFERENCE TO YOUR SUCCESS! And you have already felt this on yourself, my dear fellows! Oh, how many wonderful stories about how people suffer from the fact that they spend their time idly instead of racing in our races! What kind of conscientious people they are … You are reading an idle book that does not bring you closer to success even for a second - into the fire !!! Sit and chat with your friends instead of feverishly submitting a project by deadline - shame! It is a pity for money for a hobby - well done, put them into business! While you are cooling off here, respectable participants with a serious approach to business are already overtaking and going into the lead! How wonderfully their purple tongues are sticking out! How gracefully round the bulging eyes! How intimately their shirts, wet with sweat, shine through! Guilt is our helper, anxiety is our helmsman! For as soon as we relax and want to filon, what will come to the rescue?
- ANXIETY, FEAR, GUILT AND SHAME! ANXIETY, FEAR, GUILT AND SHAME! - the hall pulsed rhythmically.
- Finally, the fourth commandment … - The Diamond Rat wiped sweat from his shiny forehead with a silk handkerchief, - DO NOT ASK "WHY", SAY - "NECESSARY!" Well … Why rush?
- NECESSARY!
- Why are results always needed?
- NECESSARY!
- Why give up rest and idleness?
- NECESSARY!
- I see you understood everything perfectly. Remember - success in the rat race is what you need to achieve. A little more, and I know - there are many contenders for the title of Wood Rats among you! And then, in a beckoning far away, Lead, Uranium and Plutonium Rats are waiting for you! I'm not talking about the Diamond ones yet … Always look ahead, never look around and never stop, let the Lead Rat be your beacon. And more … Each of you can contribute to the Commandments of the Rat Race, and after my speech, you can add them!
To the cheerful music, the Diamond Rat left the stage. He went to the window, breathed in fresh air … He won the race. And he has nowhere else to run. There is only one thing left: to jump down …
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