Hopscotch McClipper

This is a tale of a routine dude, a fellow of the prospects of fortune and progress.  He is a hero of sorts, but he better learn the lessons set forth by men of higher stature and cleanliness.  Hopscotch is funny, he stares at poker tables and he laughts at every funny joke he ever heard.  I liked him alot.  But that said, Hopscotch had one serious flaw.  It was his love for the shiny tin foil that he covered his boat with in the morning. 
Hopscotch would walk to school in the mornings and for 10 minutes of his walk, he covered his small toy boat with tin foil.  At first he thought it was a comical thing to do, but soon Hop found that he really liked the process of applying the tin foil to the boat that his father gave him.  I liked Hop the minute I saw him cover that boat.  It just seemed like a cool trick.  Cover that boat with foil and smile for the cameras.  They were all over him.  I envied his ability to get the glances of any person that met him or came his way.  The boat shined so much.  It was a piece of art. 
But one day, the tin foil box ran out.  Hop walked to school with his toy boat, but unfortuntely he did not have a shiny tin foil covering for the toy.  He was not bothered really, he could always get more tin foil sometime.  Or perhaps Hop didn't need to keep trying to make a shiny item of his really neat boat.  It wasn't an obsession.  No, not at all.  It was his priviledge.  Really. I liked Hop and continue to do so, but as I saw Hop with the boat and no tin foil, I realized that Hop was really a fool.  He had set himself up for a life of leadership, but now he was no longer the leader we had imagined he really was.
So the moral of this story is this.  If you want to shine, shine.  Shine all the time. But when it becomes a love of shining, you might wake up one day and realize that you can not shine that day.  That is going to be your decimation.  You can indeed make a recovery, but perhaps loving the shining is not the way to be.  Perhaps you shine because its the day to shine.  Or perhaps you shine because you didn't want to toss the pretty boat in the trashcan.  Never get rid of your boat in life.  And dont shine it with all of your heart either.  Just shine it up when you can be the best you can be.  And that is my first short story.  Thanks.