A handful of jelly beans 🤗


Not so long ago, in a Chicken Soup for the Soul series, I read about a man who holds a handful of peanuts and looks at his wife and says, ‘I wish theses were emeralds’. Many years pass as he practically spends all his time working his @55 off and making tons of money and gathering so much wealth without even time for himself.

His wife is on her deathbed and he holds a handful of emeralds and says, ‘I wish these were peanuts’.
End of story.

Today, I hold a handful of jelly beans and say, ‘I wish these jelly beans are jelly beans even after many years'.


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