Jim Rohn

He said, no, she's in her 20s.

I said, whoa.

He said, that's Cookie.

He said, Cookie used to be a go-go dancer back in the go-go days.

And then she got this bone disease in her hips and legs and became a cripple.

And so her go-go days were finished.

But he said, Cookie also has a little boy, five years old, and he's dying of leukemia.

And he said, Cookie comes and sits on this stool almost every night, tries to play a little music on the jukebox, cheer herself up.

And he said, usually she gets so wasted, I have to call a taxi to come, put her in, take her home.

And I thought, Cookie, I get to travel around the world, Cookie can't even make it home without help.

What is life all about?

What turn in the road did she take that I didn't?

Where did I go right and she went wrong and I somehow got it and she miscalculated?

I had a friend that cared and she didn't have one.

What is life all about?

I'm telling you, I got some of my best education in the Tenderloin two blocks.

And I'm asking you to absorb the drama of the contrast of life, both the tragedy and the triumph, both the sorrow and the joy, both success and failure, so that it will temper your communication for the future.

Absorb the full drama.

Don't leave this skill unlearned.

Don't be lazy here.