Words of hope for all, enjoy! (not a ?)

My son was watching a collection of Disney Pixar's short films. In the collection is one called "Boundin'", about a confident little lamb who is stripped unexpectedly of his beautiful coat. Then along comes a jackalope of hope and teaches him about re-boundin'. Truly inspirational words masked as a child's cartoon. Sometimes we find hope in the oddest of places. In particular, I wanted to share this with anyone having a hard time with wds, recovery, relapse or anyone who can use some inspiration and hope. Heck, we all could right about now. Take what you want out of it, but I really found some very meaningful words that hit quite close to home. I know they aren't my own words, but I couldn't have said all this better myself. I immediately thought of all of us here who are having difficulty or even those who aren't. At any rate, please enjoy! We'll get through this!



Here’s a story on how strange is life with its changes
And it happened not long ago.
On a high mountain plain, where the sagebrush arranges
A playground south of the snow
Lived a lamb with a coat of remarkable sheen,
It would glint in the sunlight all sparkly and clean,
Such a source of great pride
that it caused him to preen.
And he’d break out in high stepp’n dance.
He would dance for his neighbors across the way.
I must say that they found his dancin’ enhancin’,
For they’d also join in the play.

Then one day… ***in this part of the cartoon, the lamb is taken and stripped of his coat***

Then a-boundin up the slope
Came a great American jackalope.
This sage of the sage, this rare hare of hope,
Caused to pause and check out the lamb.
“Hey kid, why the mope?”

“I used to be something all covered with fluff,
And I’d dance in the sunlight and show off my stuff,
Then they hauled me away in a manner quite rough
And sheared me and dropped me back here in the buff.
And if that’s not enough
Now my friends all laugh at me
Cause they think I look ridiculous, funny, and pink.”

“Pink? Pink? Well, what’s wrong with pink?
Seems you’ve got a pink kink in your think.
Does it matter what color? Well, that gets nope.
Be it pink purple or heliotrope.
Now sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down,
When you find that you’re down well just look around:
You still got a body, good legs and fine feet,
Get your head in the right place and hey, you’re complete!

“Now as for the dancin’, you can do more,
You can reach great heights, in fact you can soar.
You just get a leg up and ya slap it on down,
And you’ll find you’re up in what’s called a bound.
Bound, bound, and rebound.
Bound and you’re up right next to the sky,
And I think you can do it if you give it a try,
First get a leg up, slap it on down…”

So every year, along about May,
They’d load him up and they’d haul him away,
And they’d shave him and dump him all naked and bare.
He learned to live with it, he didn’t care,
He’d just bound, bound, bound, and rebound.

Now in this world of ups and downs…
So nice to know there are jackalopes around.

So there you go, some might think it's just a kid's cartoon with silly words, but I found a little hidden (or not so hidden) meaning in it. Thanks for reading. Thanks all!