Isay191

🐛 THE EARLY WORM

🌅 “The early bird catches the worm.” 🐦

But nobody asks…

🤔 What happens to the EARLY WORM?

🐦 Early bird = 🐛 Breakfast
🐛 Early worm = 🐦 Breakfast

😂 EARLY ≠ ALWAYS BETTER.

Sometimes… you ARE the opportunity.😆

So tell me:

👉 Would you rather be the early bird…
or the late worm?🐛

Choose wisely. 😂

“You only have to be right once.”🦈💰
- Mark Cuban

Just keep learning…
…..until there are no more chances left. 😂
Isay191 Bisdak Isay

🐢 The Three Tortoises and the Cake 🍰

For many days, three tortoises slowly crossed a vast desert.

The sun was burning. ☀️
The sand was hot.
Every step became harder.

Their legs were tired.
Their stomachs were empty.

Elder Tortoise 😩: “I don’t think I can walk any farther. My legs are too tired.”

Middle Tortoise 💪: “Keep going. We have already come so far. We cannot give up now.”

Youngest Tortoise 🥺:“I’m so hungry… I would do anything for a good meal.”

They continued walking.

Step by step…

Until finally…

They saw something in the distance.

A small restaurant. 🍰

Middle Tortoise 😲: “Look! A restaurant!”

Elder Tortoise 😌:“Finally… a place to rest and eat.”

Youngest Tortoise 🤤:“I thought we would never find food again.”

Inside, they ordered three slices of cake.

For the first time in many days, they smiled.

Elder Tortoise 😊: “After everything we went through, we deserve this.”

Youngest Tortoise 😋:“I can’t wait to taste it.”

Suddenly…

The Elder Tortoise stopped.

Elder Tortoise 😳: “Wait… who has the wallet?”

The three tortoises looked at each other.

Middle Tortoise 😟: “Not me.”

Youngest Tortoise 😨:“Not me either.”

Then they remembered…

They left it behind in the desert.

Middle Tortoise 😔:“Someone has to go back and get it.”

The two older tortoises looked at the youngest.

Elder Tortoise 👀:“You are the youngest. You are the fastest.”

The Youngest Tortoise crossed his arms.

Youngest Tortoise 🤨:“No way. If I leave, you two will eat my cake.”

Elder Tortoise 🤞: “We promise we won’t.”

Middle Tortoise 🤞:“Not even one bite.”

The Youngest Tortoise looked at them carefully.

Youngest Tortoise 😒: “Hmm… I don’t fully trust you.”

He looked at his cake.

Youngest Tortoise 😏: “Fine. But my cake better be here when I return.”

Slowly, he turned around and walked back into the desert. 🐢
...
Minutes passed.

Then hours.

The sun began to set. 🌅

The two older tortoises stared at the cakes.

Middle Tortoise 😋: “My stomach is making strange noises.”

Elder Tortoise 😬: “Remember our promise.”

More time passed.

The desert became quiet.

Middle Tortoise 😟:“Maybe something happened to him.”

Elder Tortoise 😔: “Maybe he is not coming back.”

They looked at the cake.

Just one bite…

Middle Tortoise 😋: “Nobody will know.”

Slowly…

Their hands moved closer.

Closer…

Closer…

Youngest Tortoise 😏:“AHA!”

The two older tortoises jumped.

Elder Tortoise 😲: “You were here the whole time?”

The Youngest Tortoise slowly walked toward the table.

He looked at his untouched cake. 🍰

Then he looked back at the two older tortoises.

His smile disappeared.

Youngest Tortoise 🥺:“You promised me… You said you wouldn’t eat my cake.”

Middle Tortoise 😅: “But we kept our promise! We waited for hours.”

The Youngest Tortoise looked down at the cake.

Then back at them.

Youngest Tortoise 😔:“I wasn’t only protecting my cake…”

A moment of silence filled the room.

Youngest Tortoise 💔:“I was protecting your promise.”

The two older tortoises looked at each other.

They had no words.

The cake was never the real test.

The promise was. 🐢🍰
...

"The lesson of the three tortoises: Sometimes we are so afraid of being betrayed that we fail to see the people who were willing to keep their promise." 🐢🍰

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill..unless someone keeps eating your progress. 🌱☠️ 🪦 😭

… then you remember... ..even the devil was once an angel too 😵‍💫 😈 😇 Isay191

🐶 : “Hey…”

🐭 : (slowly moves back) “Don’t come close… I’m hurt.”

🐶 : “What happened?”

🐭 : “A big human almost stepped on me.”

(The rat sits and quietly cleans its fur.)

🐶 : “People say you are dirty.”

🐭 : “They say that a lot.”

🐶 : “They also say you are bad.”

🐭 : “Hmm…”

🐭 : “I saw you earlier.”

🐶 : (pauses) “Where?”

🐭 : “Near the alley… where people dump their waste.”

(The dog goes silent.)

🐶 : “I was just hungry…”

🐭 : (still cleaning its fur) “So was I.”

(Silence.)

🐭 : “Funny… how people decide who is dirty.”

✨ “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
-Epictetus

“I hope this weekend… you enjoy it, and see things a little differently.”

“Worry too long about what you fear…
and you may end up rehearsing a life you never meant to live.” 🌒

…And one day, you might realize you were the one writing the script all along. 🖋️

Happy Monday. 🌞
New week, same you but different chances. 🌿
Isay191

“It’s late at night. 🌙

Your 16-year-old self is sitting outside the house…
quietly staring at the empty street like it understands him better than people do.

Then he notices you standing there. 🚶‍♂️

You only get 1 minute to talk. ⏳

But there’s one rule:

You can’t tell him what’s going to happen. 🤫

No warning.
No advice about the future.
No chance to stop the pain coming for him.

You only get one sentence. 🖤

What do you say…
knowing he’ll remember those words for the rest of his life? 🌧️ Isay191