Arts, Crafts, Music, & Events of Breckinridge County Issue 8, January 2016 | Page 35

Switzerland, a yacht or a limousine, or appear in the nightly news cast.
However, most people learn to be a good deal like mules. Most people
learn to put their heads down and get a job done. They learn to go to
work and earn a living for their families; they learn responsibility. Most
people learn if they get a mate, they have to work at that relationship for
it to survive. Most learn if they have a child, it is at least a 20-year
obligation. Most learn a pet is not only a fun thing that comes to you
when called, but, also a living creature to be cared for and respected as a
worthy creature its whole life. Most learn community mindfulness,
neighborliness, thankfulness, and manners. Almost all learn if you want
to eat, you have to work, and if you want clean, neat clothes you have to
wash and press them (or get a wife to do it for you). Most learn if you
have a vehicle and you want it to run, it needs to be taken to the station
for gas and upkeep, and if you have possessions you want to find again,
you will have to be responsible enough to put them where they belong, if
you want shelter, you have to pay rent or mortgage, and if they want
friends, they have to treat others as they want to be treated. Racehorses
and famous people tend to be creatures that others have to wait on and
do normal things for them; neither one normally does much hard physical
labor. Most have one thing that they do well, they look extremely good
only for a short time, and they are ready to return to their stalls or
penthouses after about an hour of working themselves. They are also
very high strung and very high maintenance.
It is the people that have the stick and stay of mules that normally
accomplish much in this world. They are the ones that usually make the
world operate as we have become accustomed to daily. They are the
ones that form the relationships that last, that go off to war to fight for
the freedoms that many others do not know the value of, raise the
children that later become responsible adults, the ones that care for aged