Twenty Five
Tony got to his feet, "Okay where was I.... Oh yeah, I remember now.... on the floor." Even Alan was becoming mesmerized as he chuckled, his eyes fixated intently on the speaker.
"But here is the thing, when I started this little forum or village there were a lot of naysayers. Many told me that an open forum would not be a good idea. The people on my staff all recommended censorship to one degree or another. They argued that people in a "Robbins" type forum should have an agenda based on my outlook or at least should be made to only communicate life supporting ideas. I told them an open forum would be more like real life. After all this world is full of cynicism, negativity, jealousies and hate. That's not what's important! What's important is how we deal with it...."
"Like when you slipped on the banana peel!" called out Polly.
"Right! Everything happens for a reason. The way I look at it.... we are all winners cause a long time ago there were millions of sperm fighting for one egg and we're the ones who won. We got to live. Man, its better than hitting the lottery! The question is what are we going to do with our winnings. Squander them on drugs? Gamble them away? Or enjoy them by helping others enjoy this crazy game we call life?
For a while there I was wondering if my detractors were right. There was a lot of ill will being thrown around this little village. But suddenly it turned around. Q came back. Pashen added a lot of positive meaningful dialogue, Judy and Polly withstood tremendous heat and came back stronger than.... and what did that do? It helped everyone learn by the example they set.... didn't it? When one got stronger everybody got stronger.... does that make sense? So the bottom line is this...... I am so pleased with the commitment that most of you have made...... and this is why I really came up here to talk with you.... aside from having to deliver the bananas of course!
I have had literally hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world take my seminars. Many are very successful amazing people.... lots of them were before they came to me and now have been enhanced by the new technology that I teach. But since you guys go out of your way to post, many of you reaching out to help each other on a daily basis you are obviously developing your skills of communication. Since the forum has taken on quite a positive spin of late I am extending an invitation to all of you to attend Date with Destiny free. That's right, you can all meet and hang out and learn and have a great time and really develop a spirit of comraderie.... howz that sound? Would you like that?" he said with a Tony sized grin. "Or you can have all these bananas, it's up to you, it's your choice."
The room shook with thunderous applause. The excitement was overwhelming. Everyone was stomping their feet and clapping their hands in a rythmic beat as a couple of old paintings fell off the wall.
"Date With Destiny, Date with Destiny we're goin' to Date With Destiny!" was heard throughout the room. There was hollarin', squealing high five's hand shakes and hugs. The people of the village who had their differences in the past were like a team that just won the World Series.
"Yeehah," shouted Jonathan "Dude, you're blowin my mind.... dude."
Polly looked at Black Belt, then jumped on him wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist.
"We really did it!"
"You are correct m'lady."
Donatello turned to Lollie,
"You knew about this didn't you? You are psychic."
Lollie looked back at Donatello, she had a small tear running down her cheek.
"I guess you could say I had a premonition." she said modestly.
Bemis, the Clone and Penelope had their arms around each other and were dancing the jig, "Tony was obviously impressed with our sure fire plan to prosperity." Mr. bemis said as the other two nodded in agreement.
Pashen said, "See passion pays off.... that's why I live my life so intensely!"
"WoW WoW WOW!" said Judy, "my husband is not going to believe this!"
"My husband is gonna kill me," said Bon Bon ..."I hope Sasha won't be mad though."
"This is more inspiring than G I Jane," yelled Karen as she raised a clenched fist in the air and yelled. "Yayuss!"
Then Polly, Judy, Tammy, Bon, Lollie and Pashen all threw their clenched fists in the air in unison and repeated "YAYUSS!"
Alan turned to Q. "Of course I knew all along that things would work out. I always said Tony was a great guy."
Everyone was slapping each other on the back.... everyone that is except Polly and The Belt who couldn't be located for some reason.
Everything else seemed to be intact.... everything except two crates of bananas that had mysteriously disappeared.
