Is This Your Very Best?

Illustration★★★★

Excellence For a second time, the young man retrieved his manuscript and spent many sleepless nights trying to perfect it. And once again he stepped forward to get the famous man’s opinion. “Are you positive that this is the best you can possibly do?” asked the old man. Disheartened but stubborn, the young writer replied) TYes;. sini is.” “Okay,” said the famous man. “Now I’ll read it.” “Wake up; revive what little you have left...so far I have failed to notice anything in the way you live that my God could possibly call perfect, and yet do you remember how eager you were when you first heard the Message?”

The point

A humorous overheard exchange on a school bus where one child reasons that fighting hamsters must be sisters.

Audience
Adults
Tone
Humorous · Ironic
To tell aloud
under a minute · 109 words

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