Episode 70: Tim laments his dear friend Moe, who is compassionate and makes Tim feel appreciated. What an asshole.
Then, Jorge wants to learn how to unicycle (the most majestic of all the art forms) but knows that one cannot do anything they are not good at. His ignorant friend Rafael, however, makes the dire mistake of believing one can better themselves.
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Jorge waved away Rafael’s words. “Do not be ridiculous. You cannot buy a unicycle just as I cannot buy a unicycle. Unicycles are only for people who know how to unicycle. That is not us. We do not know how to unicycle.”
Rafael frowned. “Well, yeah, we don’t know now, but if we get a unicycle and practice at some point we will know how to unicycle.”
“But we do not know how to unicycle now,” Jorge said, shaking his head. “That is the main point. So we cannot buy unicycles. If we do not know how to unicycle, we cannot buy unicycles no matter how much I’d like to buy a unicycle. The only people who can buy unicycles are those who know how to unicycle. I am sorry Rafael. I feel your pain. I too want to learn how to ride a unicycle, for to me it is the most majestic of all the art forms.”
Rafael rubbed his chin while looking at his friend. “You do realize that every person who knows how to unicycle at one point didn’t know how to unicycle, right?” he said. “The only way you learn how to do something is to accept that at first you don’t know how to do that thing. No one is born knowing how to unicycle.”
Jorge kept his gaze in the shop window, staring at the unicycles that seemed to glow with a halo behind them. “Some people are,” Jorge said. “Some people just know how to unicycle. And those people are the ones who are allowed to buy unicycles.”
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