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There is a land where everyone has the name "Me First". In this land no one listens so their ears are very small, their mouths are very large because they are always yelling. All the "Me First's were very rude and selfish and were known as the "Gimme folk" as they would repeat their favorite words "Give me, Give me" over and over from the moment they woke up.

They also had big heads because instead of listening to their hearts they only listened to their heads. They had forgotten to be kind and loving and their hearts became very small leaving them feeling very lonely and scared. None of the Gimme Gimmes loved each other -- there was always fighting and sometimes biting. Instead of taking responsibility, they began to blame one another and while doing so they polluted the water and the land.

One Gimme Gimme couldn't take it any longer. He climbed to the biggest mountain to find the sun and realized there had to be another way. Suddenly he is no longer "Me First" but "Number One" and he hears a voice from within his own heart telling him there is a better way and that love and forgiveness is what life is about. So he crosses the Bridge of Forgiveness and he could feel the sun shining brighter and brighter and at the end of the bridge was a rainbow arch and a land with love in the air. In this land there was only Love and no Fear, everyone was kind and helpful and the world was a beautiful place -- not like the other land full of pollution.

Meanwhile all the other Gimme Gimmes realize there had to be another way and they became desperate. Their cries were heard in the land of Forevermore Love. So now all the Gimme Gimmes followed their head to the Bridge of Forgiveness and then there was one world where everyone lived happily together in the land of Forevermore Love.

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Jampolsky is a psychiatrist and founder of the Center for Attitudinal Healing and also an author of multiple books.

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