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01/05/2004: "Fable"

The story goes that a drinking man left his favorite bar late one night. As he was fumbling to unlock the car door, he dropped the keys. Half an hour later his friend comes by, and finds him on hands and knees, meticulously searching the area under a lamppost up the block. the friend asks what's wrong; the man tells what I've told you. The friend asks, "Why are you looking for your keys here when you dropped them over there by your car?" The drinking man replies, "The light's better over here." Moral: When looking for the good things in life; love, meaning, happiness, joy, the first and last things; look first where they are likely to be found, not where the searching's easiest.