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fishing for happiness

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A penguin, a polar bear and an artic fox were tussling about on a cold bitter day. The penguin was fishing, but not in the traditional manner that penguins do, he was using a trick he had learned from the ermine that lived around the corner. The penguin was using a slender road with a line attached, and a small bit of something flashy he had picked up from the side of the road. If he twitched the rod just right, it would cause the string to jump a bit, sending a flash from the shiny piece through the water that would attract fish, which would bite the line, and then provide him with a tasty morsel he could enjoy. He would just have to keep his hard won prize from the polar bears eyes. While the penguin fished, the polar bear chased the ermine, who had been fishing with the penguin, until he caught one, and subsequently began running from the polar bear who had decided the fish caught by the ermine was rightfully his. The artic fox, sly as could be, was waiting for the polar bear to tire the ermine, so that he could be the winner of the fish, but he was also keeping a close eye on the penguin.
People often describe the food chain as a cycle, but I am sure that they have never had the pleasure of witnessing just how cyclic it can be when animals chase each other in circles over a meal. I would have to say, it looked a little like this picture.

So now you have seen something not many people get a chance to see: the true cycle of the food chain. It reminds me a lot of life. You work hard to find happiness for someone to try to take away your happiness. And even when you are still fishing around for it, there's always someone or something watching, waiting, so that they can try to take it away. I don't know which one of us is the ermine, and which one of us is the penguin, but I bet if we worked together we could stop anyone who wants to take our happiness away. But I'm not going to limit this to us, there are a lot of other people who are fishing for happiness, and aren't looking to take it away from anyone. You just have to find them.

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