Pennies on the ground, or Dollars in the trees?

As I look around and listen up to all the noise passing for conversation on this planet, it is perfectly clear that people are settling for old, used, and dirty pennies on the ground, while missing all the clean, crisp and new DOLLARS of high denomination in the trees.

This is not so surprising, because the noise (passing for conversation) is EVERYWHERE! You simply can't escape it, it's all around. And even if you imagine you can escape it - and unplug all your electronics, and move to the mountains - that thought-factory between your ears churns out just as much or more than the little bit you might have imagined you escaped! So, NO ESCAPE FOR YOU!

Thus, it is no wonder people settle for small handfuls of old, dirty pennies because - and here comes the clue for the night - it's CLOSER to their eyeballs (only a couple feet, if that, away - often just inches), and so easier to "see" and identify as "at least some value", so they grasp, clutch and pocket, with a bit of a smile on, as though they actually got something of value. What a joke a) that is, and b) they are for thinking that.

Small handfuls of pennies don't go very far - perhaps a small coffee at McD's, or a candy bar at the drugstore - but leaving all those high denomination dollars for the SMARTER BIRDS out there who actually CAN SEE THEM, CLEARLY, should result in a moment or many of Real Shame, if they ever discover their error.

People don't look UP, they can't SEE where the real value is, and even if someone catches a glimpse of something, "up there", before they gather their senses to the degree necessary to reach out... well, you know... it's already gone.

There is a valuable trick to all this, but you don't know what it is, you can't know what it is because it would be like shedding your human skin and GROWING A PAIR... (of you know what, right? you considered it last time you were here, right?)

So, let me ask you, what would you do THEN, after growing a pair considering that all that GREAT VALUE just outside your sight, your hearing, and your reach, was nevertheless obtainable, but for the fact that you still haven't "taken flight".

The rest is up to you and no one else. Fail at this and you have no one to blame, no one to criticize, no one to condemn, just a sheepish grin on your face, which is turning ever pinker even as I refer to it here yet again.