I was asked to give a speech/lecture to a group of teenagers that were feeling depressed and hopeless. I did not prepare at all for the speech/lecture. Instead, I watched a movie about a guy who has children. In the movie the guy says he is sad. And then his children say, “Don’t be sad father,” and this makes him even more sad so he goes to sleep.

The person who asked me to give the speech/lecture said that sometimes teenagers will be disrespectful and make loud noises. I said, “I am very good at making loud noises too.” The person who asked me to give the speech/lecture said, “We’ve had a lot of bad experiences with people who try to make loud noises in front of the teenagers who are feeling depressed and hopeless.”

On the day of the speech/lecture I wore a really nice coat. When I got to the auditorium I was unsure what to say so I stood up on stage, held a microphone, and pointed directly at one of them. For an hour I didn’t say anything. A lot of the depressed and hopeless teenagers became even more depressed and hopeless. Finally, after an hour I spoke. I told them about a cat and how it meows a lot when it’s hungry. I told them that they were the sound of a meow and that I was the cat and that their hopelessness and depression was the cat’s hunger. All the depressed and hopeless teenagers began meowing. This made me feel really good. I had accomplished something that felt important.