The Cowboy (527 hits)
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Submitted by <tcaok.at.netzero.com> (View user info) at 2005-04-08 23:40:16 EDT
Once there was a Cowboy.
The Cowboy was just trying to live peacefully. But the Cowboy's parents wouldn't leave the Cowboy alone, and constantly demanded more and more from it. So the Cowboy moved out, and became free. It took with it a book. That book was the bible. The Cowboy protected itself, and had ideals like honor, patriotism, duty, and courage, ideals that it kept close to it's heart. The parents once tried to bring the cowboy back home. But the cowboy fought, and kept it's morales, and managed to stay independent.
The cowboy was everyone's friend. Once when a bully picked on other people, the cowboy rode in at the last minute and saved the weak. Then after saving the weak, the cowboy extended the hand of friendship to the weak, and helped them get back on their feet. And then everyone looked up to the cowboy, because the cowboy thought only of good and progress, and didn't let others get in it's way. And the cowboy despised blood, but knew that too stay alive and free there would be times that blood would have to spill. The Cowboy never spilled blood unless he had to, and felt no qualms when he did, since he knew that it was absolutly necessary.
But then, at the Cowboy's pinnacle, a problem appeared. The Cowboy had a rival. The Cowboy and the rival got into a contest, a contest choked with hubris. And others began to fear the Cowboy, feared him for his power and envy him for his prosperity. The Cowboy gathered power, gathered tens, hundreds, thousands of times of power more than it needed, all because it got into a one-up contest with a rival struggling to rise out of it's own poverty. The contest ruined the rival, and left the Cowboy overarmed and bitter, and created enemies, enemies all over. It began to lose honor, patriotism, duty, and courage, it began to think only of itself, only of personal profit. Now it tried to extend the hand of friendship to others, but that hand was greedy, it reached out only to those it could expect benefits from in return. It hid it's bible, fearing that it would offend those who didn't read it.
The Cowboy began to drink. The Cowboy had drank before, but never like this. It was greedy and wasteful, drinking whenever it could, as if to show off that it could. It drank barrels and barrels, many more than anyone else. The Cowboy spent more time drinking, and less time working. It began to pay others to work for it. The Cowboy drank and paid others to do it's work so much that it began to forget how to work, how to survive without it's copious quantities of drink. The Cowboy had an extensive, very extensive, purse, but it was steadily draining, not so slowly, with no reversal in sight.
Outside of town there was a grave. Everyone knew of the grave, and the man that lay in it. But none saw it, saw the pattern. The pattern that the man in the grave had set up, that the Cowboy was following to a frightening precision. None knew that if the Cowboy continued on its path, it would end up like the man in the grave.
Written on the tombstone over the grave:"ROME"
User Reviews
Submitted by Maddog (user info) at 2005-04-09 16:34:12 EDT (#)
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Kudos for being able to work the word "Cowboy" into your post 26 times
Submitted by the_mysterious_stranger (user info) at 2005-04-09 16:26:02 EDT (#)
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Not bad, but the USA strictly followed an isolationist policy before WWI. No benevolent hand reaching out to those in need.
Submitted by toga (user info) at 2005-04-09 14:37:09 EDT (#)
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Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-04-09 10:13:29 (#)
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I saw it coming too early on. It would have been so much better if you hadn't referred to the cowboy as it, and referred to him as he. It was a decent enough analogy though and a well written post so plus2 or you.
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Good point.
Submitted by madddonkey255 (user info) at 2005-04-09 13:56:12 EDT (#)
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Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-04-09 10:13:29 EDT (#)
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I saw it coming too early on. It would have been so much better if you hadn't referred to the cowboy as it, and referred to him as he. It was a decent enough analogy though and a well written post so plus2 or you.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-04-09 09:17:00 EDT (#)
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Welcome to Ubersite
(Wait: am I allowed to say that yet? Someone help me out here)
Submitted by TheSunGod (user info) at 2005-04-09 09:06:57 EDT (#)
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the metaphor's a little thin and the writing simplistic, but i like it. good first post (if it is. i didn't bother checking, just going on the words of others.)
Submitted by Mister_Fahrenheit (user info) at 2005-04-09 00:37:48 EDT (#)
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Cowboys kick ass.
Submitted by Kre8rix (user info) at 2005-04-09 00:20:10 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Freakmagnet (user info) at 2005-04-08 23:49:17 (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow. Best first post ever.
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indeed
Submitted by Freakmagnet (user info) at 2005-04-08 23:49:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow. Best first post ever.
Submitted by joedaddy (user info) at 2005-04-08 23:46:42 EDT (#)
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