That shy member of the bowling team might also be an accomplished pianist. The sales rep in Toledo might be an authoress of unpublished epic poems. The investor might be an inventor. In 1905, the junior patent office employee in Bern was Albert Einstein. Let me put it in verse for you.
If I Were King One Day
If I were king one day, I would
Not do the things you think I should.
I would not stop to give each one
A parcel here, a mansion there,
Or gold that glistens like our sun.
Nor would I give with regal flair
A day for dawdling, idle fun.
My day as king would make no one
A loving man or one with hate,
Nor would I open prison’s gate.
Instead my day as king would go
With heat, or cold, or rain, or snow,
As roughly as the day before
With neither less nor any more
Of what each had within his store.
I would not change a thing, but link
The thoughts of all to what all think.
Some seven billion then could weigh
What each one does and thinks one day.
If I Were King One Day
If I were king one day, I would
Not do the things you think I should.
I would not stop to give each one
A parcel here, a mansion there,
Or gold that glistens like our sun.
Nor would I give with regal flair
A day for dawdling, idle fun.
My day as king would make no one
A loving man or one with hate,
Nor would I open prison’s gate.
Instead my day as king would go
With heat, or cold, or rain, or snow,
As roughly as the day before
With neither less nor any more
Of what each had within his store.
I would not change a thing, but link
The thoughts of all to what all think.
Some seven billion then could weigh
What each one does and thinks one day.
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