TITLE: "IF YOU WANT TO HAVE IT ALL, MAKE AN EFFORT" Author: Clara Perez 2 characters 1.- Alexander: Self-conscious man who complains about his life. 2.- Miguel: Successful man who teaches him a lesson. Setting: Corner of a square. Introduction: Alexander is sitting on the sidewalk of a square, killing time without doing anything useful when Miguel passes in front of him. Alexander (mockingly): Look who's coming there! The neighborhood rich man. Miguel (trying to follow his path): Hello Alexander. How are you? Alexander (grabbing his arm): But, that's it, are you talking to the rabble now? Miguel (shaking off his arm): What rabble? The people in this neighborhood don't seem like rabble to me, I grew up here, and my mom still lives here. Alexander (ironic): Yes, but since you are now an engineer and you live in a rich place, you have a car and a pretty wife, the neighborhood must seem inferior to you. Miguel (looking uncomfortably): To me, everyone is the same, some who put in more effort and others less, but material things don't decide how much you're worth. Alexander: What you had was luck. Miguel (laughing ironically): Luck? Do you think that luck would have given you everything you say now I have? Alexander (shrugging his shoulders): Sure friend, if I had been lucky enough to find a job like yours, that paid me that well, I would have left this neighborhood too. Miguel (still smiling ironically): And how were you going to get it? Because to have this job that I have, I had to study hard, get a degree and work from a very young age to be able to help my mother pay for my studies and to be able to have my things, did you do that? Alexander: No, I couldn't study, I had no resources Miguel: I didn't have any money either, but I wanted to get ahead, and I used the little free time I had to work and earn money to study. Do you remember what you did while I worked at whatever it was to study? Alexander: Well, if I went out with friends, I went to parties, I drank... Miguel: And on weekends when you went to the beach to spend more than you produced and you took money from your mother to go to a party? Do you know what I did? I stayed awake studying for my exams. So don't think that luck is going to give you the things that others struggled to have. People work for what they want, fight for what they hope is their life. Alexander: So you weren't lucky? Miguel (somewhat annoyed): No, I wasn't lucky, I was determined, and you still have time, stop wanting what others have with their effort and strive for what you want, stand up from that sidewalk and go to work, work day and night, save and set a goal. You make luck yourself and to have what others have, you have to work as hard as they do. You are not a rabble, you are a conformist. Miguel starts to walk leaving Alexander not knowing what to answer. Alexander (watching miguel walk away and speaking loudly): Okay, well, I'm not lazy at all, you're right, friend. FINISH.