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00:00Kairos.

00:07Sometimes things happen in the world of men, things so fantastic and magical that they

00:13become legends.

00:15This legend happened in ancient Greece, in the village of Eurydice, when a youth who

00:22had traveled far, returned.

00:29Mother!

00:32Lysander!

00:35Oh!

00:38My son!

00:41It's so good to be back!

00:46Father!

00:48Oh!

00:50Lysander, my boy!

00:59No, no, no!

01:00You rest for a few days.

01:03Father, I want to be with you in the fields.

01:05Now that I am here, you don't have to work so hard.

01:13The crop is almost ready.

01:15I was thinking, we must plant millets before corn.

01:20Millets grow faster.

01:21That way we could have multiple crops in a year.

01:25Son, Mother Nature has already given us so much.

01:29We have enough.

01:34But...

01:44When I was coming here, I had to look for a place to cross the river by.

01:48Why don't we build boats and some of us can run those boats and take travelers across

01:54as a side business.

01:57We have our fields.

02:00Mother Nature has given us so much.

02:02We have enough.

02:14That night, a strange thing happened.

02:17The sky seemed to split by a glowing shaft of light.

02:21And from within it emerged a being.

02:24Powerful.

02:25Magnificent.

02:32Who are you?

02:34I am Kairos, the bringer of opportunity.

02:38I come and I flash by.

02:40It is up to you to catch me.

02:43How?

02:45How do we catch you, Kairos?

02:48To catch me, you have to look for me.

02:50Recognize me and then seize me.

02:53I can appear anywhere, in any form.

02:56Just remember, change, growth is the way of life.

03:01If you choose to remain where you are, life will leave you behind.

03:08So, if you want to grow, be always on the lookout for me, you people of Eurydice.

03:19Find me. Seize me.

03:27What?

03:30Was I dreaming?

03:34No, it was real.

03:41Many weeks passed by.

03:43The villagers could not shake the feeling that something, something big had happened that night.

03:50And then, one day, a terrible storm broke out.

04:03We must save the crop.

04:09Help, help, everyone.

04:13The villagers worked all day and all night, trying to save their crops.

04:22But alas, a lot of that crop was lost.

04:27What do we do now?

04:29I thought that after being, Kairos came here, something good, something beautiful would happen.

04:37But instead, this happened.

04:44That night, the villagers went to bed miserable.

04:48They couldn't sleep for a long time.

04:53But then Lysander had a dream.

04:57You have to look for me, recognize me, and then seize me.

05:03I can appear anywhere, in any form.

05:06Just remember, change, growth is the way of life.

05:11If you choose to remain where you are, life will leave you behind.

05:16So, if you want to grow, be always on the lookout for me, you people of Eurydice.

05:24Find me, seize me.

05:28You remember what I said.

05:30So why don't you seize me?

05:32I am here, find me.

05:34Don't let me leave, seize me.

05:38Seize me, seize me.

05:44Wait, wait, what?

05:49He's here, how?

05:52A storm and opportunity, how?

06:01Do we remember what Kairos had said?

06:06How does it matter what he said?

06:08He has brought disaster to our village.

06:11Maybe Mother Nature is angry at us.

06:15Or maybe this is Kairos coming to us in the form of a storm.

06:19What do you mean?

06:21Father, if we had grown millets before corn, those millets would have been sold by now.

06:27And we would have been able to make better sheds for our crop.

06:31The storm would not have hurt us so much.

06:33You are right.

06:35But all is not lost.

06:37We can still use the fallen trees to make boats.

06:41Lots of people will now need boats to cross the swollen river and the silt.

06:46The river has brought with it so much silt.

06:49If we can plant vegetables now, we could have a crop later this year.

06:54Oh yes, yes, we could.

07:00But, but where do we get the seeds from?

07:04On my way back here, I had bought a few bags of seeds.

07:08We could use those and plus there are many vegetables that we can easily grow here.

07:13And they don't need seeds.

07:16Of course, we could still turn this around.

07:20We really could.

07:22We are proud of you, Kairos.

07:25Where did you learn all this?

07:30I didn't make my father send me to seed the world for nothing.

07:34I have learned quite a few things on my journey.

07:37So, the villagers seized the opportunity.

07:41Some started making bull boats.

07:43Others planted vegetables in the now rich soil.

07:46By the end of the year, they had more than what they had expected.

07:57With the money, we will build better sheds and get more seeds.

08:03And I am building a little lake that will store the water of the river.

08:09So that we always have plenty of water.

08:12If we had a storm once, we could have had a drought another year.

08:16That is a splendid idea.

08:21So, the villagers continued their simple hard working lives.

08:25But this time with eyes open for opportunities and constructive change.

08:31A few years passed by.

08:35Father, why can't you get me a blue silk rope too?

08:40Because you don't need it.

08:42But you have the money.

08:44Just because we have the money, that does not mean we waste it, okay?

08:49Believe us.

08:53If we thought you needed one more coat, we would have bought it for you.

08:59Then why did you make our village so poor?

09:02Then why did you make our village so rich?

09:05Why did you tell me about Karos? I don't understand at all.

09:13Lysander, Lysander, did you hear?

09:18What?

09:19In the village of Marcellus, there was a terrible quake.

09:23So many houses and even their crops have been destroyed.

09:28My brother lives there. They...

09:31We must help.

09:33Then we have decided.

09:35We will help the villagers of Marcellus by sending boatloads of grain of course at no cost.

09:43And clothes.

09:44Two doctors of our village will go there.

09:47And some of us will go there to help them construct houses.

09:50Taking some money too, right?

09:54Agreed.

09:55But before we help anyone, we must take permission.

10:00Permission?

10:01From whom?

10:03From our children.

10:05What?

10:10How can the children take such import?

10:14What do you want to do?

10:26Now, here is everything you all have wanted.

10:29Toys, clothes, more pocket money.

10:34But there are people in Marcellus who have lost their homes.

10:37They don't have any food, no blankets, no medicines.

10:43Now here is our money.

10:45Where do you think we should spend it?

10:48In that pile or that one?

10:56That one. That one for sure.

11:11Money belongs to everyone.

11:13Just because we have it with us, that does not mean we own all of it.

11:20Money must be shared and used for the good of all.

11:23Remember, if we learn to grow and to share,

11:26Mother Nature has given us all enough.

11:29That is what the legend of Kairos teaches us.

11:33What our prosperity could not teach our children,

11:36you used a disaster to teach it to them.

11:39Kairos must be happy.

11:41The legend of Kairos has been handed down for centuries.

11:45Because indeed, the opportunity to grow,

11:49whether in terms of money, knowledge or wisdom,

11:52comes unannounced.

11:54We must have the ability to look for it,

11:57find it and seize it.

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