Great post Harold - especially an encouragement for those who think that
life is just passing them by. If at first you don't succeed.........
Cdr Jen
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Subject: [RR] Sparky
from harold's file . . .
The late Earl Nightingale, writer and publisher of inspirational and
motivational material, once told a story about a boy named Sparky. For
Sparky, school was all but impossible. He failed every subject in the
eighth grade. He flunked physics in high school, getting a grade of
zero.
Sparky also flunked Latin, Algebra, and English. He didn't do much
better in sports. Although he did manage to make the school's golf team,
he promptly lost the only important match of the season. There was a
consolation match; he lost that one too.
Throughout his youth, Sparky was awkward socially. He was not
actually disliked by the other students; no one cared that much. He was
astonished if a classmate ever said hello to him outside of school hours.
There's no way to tell how he might have done at dating. Sparky never
once
asked a girl to go out in high school. he was too afraid of being turned
down.
Sparky was a loser. He, his classmates ... everyone knew it. So he
rolled with it. Sparky had made up his mind early in life that if things
were meant to work out, they would. Otherwise he would content himself
with what appeared to be his inevitable mediocrity.
However, one thing was important to Sparky -- drawing. He was proud
of his artwork. Of course, no one else appreciated it. In his senior
year
of high school, he submitted some cartoons to the editors of the
yearbook.
The cartoons were turned down. Despite this particular rejection, Sparky
was so convinced of his ability that he decided to become a professional
artist.
After completing high school, he wrote a letter to Walt Disney
studios. He was told to send some samples of his artwork, and the
subject
for a cartoon was suggested. Sparky drew the proposed cartoon. He spent
a
great deal of time on it and on all the other drawings he submitted.
Finally, the reply came from Disney Studios. He had been rejected once
again.
So Sparky decided to write his own autobiography in cartoons. He
described his childhood self -- a little boy loser and chronic
underachiever. The cartoon character would soon become famous worldwide.
For Sparky, the boy who had such a lack of success in school, and
whose work was rejected again and again, was Charles Schultz. He created
the "Peanuts" comic strip and the little cartoon character whose kite
would never fly and who never succeeded in kicking a football -- Charlie
Brown.
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