Taoism Point-of-View Text Hi, this is AJ. Welcome to the point of view stories for "Taoism." Same story, but this time we start with "Since last year..."

Taoism Point-of-View Text

Hi, this is AJ. Welcome to the point of view stories for "Taoism." Same story, but this

time we start with "Since last year..."

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Since last year Tomoe has wanted to fight a gorilla. She has wanted to fight a

gorilla starting last year until recently. Tomoe has wanted to fight a gorilla since

last year. In fact, every day since last year she has contemplated her goal.

Starting last year, she started to contemplate and then every day she has

contemplated her goal every day since last year.

What has she contemplated?

She has contemplated her goal, her goal of fighting a gorilla. Because she has wanted

to fight a gorilla for one year, since last year.

But of course, every time she has contemplated fighting a gorilla, she has

realized that gorillas have brute strength. She has realized every time that they

are hard to fight. And so every day since last year she has gone to the gym.

Every day since last year she has gone to the gym and she has strained to lift

weights. She has tried very hard to lift weights. Every day she has strained to lift

weights. Every day she has worked out, exercised. Every day she has gotten

stronger and stronger and stronger, since last year. So she has wanted to fight a

gorilla. She has contemplated fighting a gorilla. She has gone to the gym. She

has exercised. She has strained to lift weights every day since last year, until

finally she was ready.

One day she said "I'm ready. I will proceed with my plan." And she did. She

proceeded with her plan. She flew to Africa. In Africa she saw a big, strong, huge

gorilla. But there was a problem. The gorilla had such a cute little baby. Oh no.

Tomoe visualized the baby crying. She imagined the baby crying. And so Tomoe

took the baby into consideration. She thought about the baby. And Tomoe

decided not to fight the gorilla. Instead she played basketball with the gorilla and

the gorilla baby. And everybody was very happy.

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Okay, that's all. That's the end of our first mini-story. Again, you probably noticed there

was a change in there. Actually a couple of little changes, you may have noticed that.