Source: Dumb Little Man
Have you ever had someone you don’t want to talk to…talk to you? When it happens, it rarely makes you over ten thousand dollars?
Well, that’s what happened to me. An uninvited conversation left me with one realization that is simultaneously a money maker, a happiness amplifier, and a life enlarger.
Let me share it with you.
I’m sitting at the metro and this man walks in. He starts walking towards me. Please don’t sit next to me, please don’t sit next to me, please don’t sit next to me.
Sure enough, right next to me he sits.
And just as he sits, I pull out my iPad and resume the Aladdin movie. Ah! I have avoided the uninvited conversation or have I?
He leans over “Is that Aladdin?”. “Yes. Apparently, it is”.
“I could give you the magic lamp” he grins. Is he flirting with me or is he trying to scam me?
“You know, every billionaire, every millionaire, these guys use it all the time. It really exists, but you don’t know it”, he continues.
At this point, man, I have to admit that I am intrigued. Call me a sucker if you must, but I’m high in openness. So, I utter what comes out as a rhyme: “Old man, tell me. What are you trying to sell me?”
That is all he needs.
“Tell me, boy, why the genie grants your wishes,” he asks.
“Because he’s the genie?”
“No! The genie grants your wishes because he has two things.”
He looks at me expectantly and I am as lost on the point as you are right now.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I say, and he responds with what finally makes sense. “The genie grants wishes because he has firstly, the ability to grant your wish, and second, the willingness to grant your wish”.
Okay, that makes sense.
He continues “You see, boy, there are humans who have the ability and willingness to help you with your causes or wishes or whatever”.
When you think about it, he is right.
Bill Gates has the ability to buy me…
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