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Two cats went for a walk in their neighborhood.

“Have you ever seen a pink elephant?” asked one of them.

“No,” said the other, “because there are no pink elephants.”

“Of course there are,” said the other.

“Ain’t so,” taunted the second cat.

The first cat stopped for a moment before speaking. “Tell you what—I want you to stop thinking about pink elephants, since according to you they aren’t real. Whatever you do, don’t think about pink elephants.”

“That should be easy,” said the other cat.

All day long he tried to stop thinking about pink elephants, but all day long that’s all he could think about. He thought about them so much that he began to believe they were real, and when at night he fell into an exhausted sleep, he dreamt about . . . you guessed it, pink elephants.

Moral: Just let go. The harder you try to get rid of some ideas or people, they more they hang around.