Heigh-Ho/Whistle While You Work

This is part of another man’s story.

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He was laid off from work and he greeted the freedom with ambition.

——I’m free to do all those things I’ve been meaning to do! This is the life for me.

He was positively beaming.

It turns out that his ambition had a one-to-one relationship with his bank funds. As money went by, it became time to search for work.

In the time of searching for work and subsequently failing to find work, he came to develop a very healthy appreciation for work.

——Work is good.
The world needs work.
I want to work in the world!

He said.

When he finally did get a new job he put on his miner’s hat, grabbed his coal-bustin pick and whistled to work every day.

——Oh wondrous fortune, for what caused you to turn on me this day!

He proclaimed skyward—not understanding the reason for his sudden change of fate. During the many moons prior to that day, he had been passed over by a dozen other employers.

——But I am the same man as I have always been…

He claimed inward.

But after a couple of months, well, he started to understand that coal was not a renewable, clean energy source, and frankly, the ethics of the situation were covered in soot—it was getting hard to breathe.

The ambition to make a difference and discontent with his circumstance still lingered. In order to make a difference, the kind of difference that mattered, he would need to be free. So while he whistled to work, it was a pirate’s life for him.

The sooner he figures that out, I reckon, the better off he’ll be.

Artist: Brian Wilson
Song: Heigh-Ho / Whistle While You Work
Album: In The Key Of Disney
Year: 2011