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Submitted to Contest #102
I believe it was one of Ben Franklin's aphorisms that went: "early to bed early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." Franklin also noted that: "guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days." I intend to discuss the first. Not in a philosophical sense, by debating its veracity to the human condition, but in a journalistic one: by describing the effects of its literal interpretation. Not in a scientific way, as by studying a representative sample of the population and drawing conclusions (e.g. going early to bed, but not ris...
I have never been good at taking in the scenery. Others always had to point things out to me. I never spotted the robin on the branch; I never saw the snake in the grass. For me, turtles that looked like rocks were just rocks or turtles. I never could appreciate a world filled with many things, but only individual things one at a time. I felt no pang of envy when someone would point out a rabbit in a snowdrift. I did not care. I never understood why others cared. I knew there were rabbits that hid in the snow and rare birds that visited fam...
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