The Commonality: Part II

16 March 2023

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Selfishness! Promptly, we disabled the simulation. Thousands of cycles—the results always the same. Every intelligent species converges on the same attributes and you don't need a complex venn diagram to tell you that. "Come on," I said to my eel sidekick. "Let's look elsewhere."
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    "Let's go shopping!" said my eel enthusiastically.
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    "Where shall we go?" I asked, "Lidl? Trader Joe's? Tesco? Red Owl?" My eel glared at me from inside its tank. "You know very well that Red Owl is no longer in business." It was right. I knew. After all, I was the sole inheritor to the Red Owl dynasty & I had squandered the power.
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    "Hoot-hoot." I looked up at my open front window and was surprised to see a red owl sitting there. It glowed as it said, "The Legend of the Red Owl Business may be over for now, but you always have the ability to revive it." My eel got a bit pissed though and wanted to fight.
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    “Nigel, buddy, you’re in a different ecosystem. Let it go.” A cascade of bubbles rose to the top of the tank. As they popped, I heard the eel’s angry words. Unfortunately he was speaking Greek. He does that when he’s angry.
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    Everything seemed to fly by after that. Everything. I remember what the eel said to me before I left. "When you call for help, there will always be someone there to help you." And so, I followed this. Since then, I've help countless people in need of help just like they helped me
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