A little frog at the bottom of a well caught sight of a ray of light. Following it, he climbed out of the dark abyss. He kept striving for a better future, even as he sank halfway into a mire.
Sometimes he sank deeper and deeper, always hovering on the edge between struggling on and giving up. Driven by fame and fortune, he stopped caring about his dignity.
Then he saw that light again. It shone so brightly that he couldn't face himself, or look at the light any longer.
Once more, he felt inferior because of everything ugly about him.
In the end, that light fell upon him.
It was warm. It didn't burn him, and it healed him.
A firefly who shone brilliantly onstage reached out to him.
To his surprise, they shared the same light. He had spent so long in the deep well with the frogs that he had always thought he was one of them.
It turned out he was a firefly too. He had simply lived alone in the darkness, unable to shine without others of his kind.
Washed-up, flirtatious actor bottom VS upright, refined, former child star turned famous actor top.
Theme: Keep striving, and meet me at the top
