After pondering the Wizard’s words a few moments, Greg conceded, “Well, maybe I owe you one there. But I usually don’t need help breathing. I breathe good enough to stay alive.”
“Yes, you do breathe good enough to stay alive.” The Wizard agreed again.
“But you don’t breathe good enough to ‘THRIVE’.
Your breath is shallow.
This can cause all sorts of diseases and keeps you from being the best at everything you do.”
“Now, you’re the one teasing!” Greg challenged, still not buying into the Wizard’s advice.
Seeing that Greg needed something more than words to be convinced, the Wizard snapped his fingers and Greg found himself watching a movie play on the inner screen of his closed eyelids.
One by one he saw all his friends, and even kids he didn’t know yet, from the neighborhood and school doing the things they liked to do best.
Only . . .