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9 years ago
(Warning: Long Comment)Once upon a time, there lived a family in a small house, on a small island, in the middle of the ocean.The family was large, and was thus always bickering. They argued over who got the beds, who got to eat the good food, who got the easiest jobs. Even so, they managed to live together in the small house, on the small island, in the middle of the ocean.As time went on, the people changed. Children grew up, elders died. They began to trade bed space for the best food, the best food for the easy jobs. The bickering started to fade away in the small house, on the small island, in the middle of the ocean.Each person in the family began to think about bigger things. They came up with ideas on where the island was in the ocean, who built the house, and why the family lived in it. Nobody could agree, and so the bickering began again in the small house, on the small island, in the middle of the ocean.The family learned to accept their different views. They still disagreed, but they never bickered. Instead, they discussed their ideas. They tried to decide if any of them were right. Peace reigned again in the small house, on the small island, in the middle of the ocean.One day, one of the family's children broke their arm. The entire family bickered over who caused it. By the end of the argument, there was little happiness in the small house, on the small island, in the middle of the ocean.One of the oldest men in the family said that he was the smartest, that his ideas were right. He bickered with a few other about them, and soon the whole family was bickering once again. Long after the argument had ended, one of the old men and one of the younger men were still bickering. The young man smashed a window, and the bickering seemed to have ended in the small house, on the small island, in the middle of the ocean.That same young man began to bicker with a different old man about his ideas, and they refused to speak for many years. They forced others to bicker for them, only caring for their own ideas. Distrust ruled in the small house, on the small island, in the middle of the ocean.The old man died, and his son took his place. The son cared not for his father's ideas. As time went on, however, the son and the young man began to disagree once more. And before they knew it, bickering once more filled the small house, on the small island, in the middle of the ocean.In the end, they destroyed the house. The family lived on though, surviving alone on the small island. One day, they vowed to rebuild the house, and to love on another as a family should... as they should have before.