MARCH IN THE PARADE
Walt Disney once wrote: When I was about twenty-one, I went broke for the first time. I slept on chair cushions in my “studio” in Kansas City and ate cold beans out of a can. But I took another look at my dream and set out for Hollywood. Foolish? Not to a youngster. An older person might have had too much ‘common sense’ to do it. Sometimes I wonder if ‘common sense’ isn’t another way of saying ‘fear.’ And ‘fear’ too often spells failure. In the lexicon of youth there is no such words as ‘fail.’ Remember the story about the boy who wanted to march in the circus parade? When the show came to town, the bandmaster needed a trombonist, so the boy signed up. He hadn’t marched a block before the fearful noises from his horn caused two women to faint and a horse to run away. The bandmaster demanded, ‘Why didn’t you tell me you couldn’t play…
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