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When People Try to Keep You Down, Remember This Story
Listen to people. Don’t listen to people.
“This is a joke!” screamed an overly amped-up koala. “These trees are way too big! I don’t know a single monkey — let alone koala — who could possibly make it to the top!”
Shaking slightly with quickly growing self-doubt, the nine brave koalas attempted to claw their way up Lonely Eucalyptus —a patch of trees so tall the furry animals believed thunder was a result of their branches tickling the clouds.
And sure enough, the negative noise from the ground began to impede the positive advancement above as each minute that passed the faster the koalas began to drop.
“Ha ha ha!” belted out caffeine koala from the top of his lungs. “Ha ha ha!” joined in the others. “It’s called Lonely Eucalyptus for a reason! You’re all fools for even trying. No one has ever made it to the top and no one ever will!”
But to the amazement of the crowd, one young koala kept climbing. And climbing. And climbing. And after two hours, she’d done the impossible and was rewarded with a view no koala had ever seen before and quite possibly a view no other koala would see again.
“How’d you do it?” shouted the masses once the young hero had finally put her little paws on the firm ground. “We…
