Hanuman looked around at his last stop on his trip. This was a much smaller audience compared to the sizes he had spoken too recently. The scenery was pleasant with some nice bushes and small sized gardens and beautifully trimmed trees. He was happy that his last speech was going to be in a beautiful and quiet retirement home. A lot of these people have led prosperous lives, and some have not. The life span of any one person is always uncertain and Hanuman knew that. He also knew that saying "my life could be over at any time" was no excuse to give up believing in the thing or things that you have believed in your whole entire life.

He stood in the middle of the meeting hall in a retirement home, and everyone came to take a seat in a semi-circle in front of him. He took a quick glance at the audience and noticed some of them had nicer clothes than the others, some healthier than the others, and some younger than the other. It saddened him to see the ones who had the nicer clothes seemed to be healthier, especially since he knew that retirement homes don't provide great health care themselves. He dared not show his concern on the matter and opened with a warming smile that made the room light up. Even the plants that looked like they needed a little watering perked up a bit to hear him speak. "Hello! I am Hanuman and I am very pleased to meet you. I've been told a lot of you help out around the grounds here, and I am very impressed with the way things look."

Hanuman continued his speech, "I came here to tell you one last story. This is a story I chose completely for this audience just for the fact that I know at this point in a lot of our lives that many of us have given up and let things play out and hope for the best. Most of you, if not all of you, have gone through one or more extremely tough times in your life where it completely wore you out, or where you just wanted to give up but you didn't. I don't want any of you to fall back into that state of mind of giving up again, or if you are already there I want to be able to lift you out of it."

"Throughout my whole youth I devoted myself to one man, Rama. He was the nicest of all kings, sincerest of all men, and as selfless as everyone could be. His heart was pure love, and all whose eyes fell on him instantly loved him. He radiated pure happiness from his body, a happiness that made everyone happy who came near him happy. I served him through his whole life. I fought wars with him, I swam oceans for him, and I still protect him and his shrines located in India. The day that he departed his world was a sad day for everyone, but not for me.”

“Everyone who said goodbye to Rama and his wife Sita received a gift or a blessing from them both, but I refused any such gifts or blessings. His wife offered me a priceless bracelet, but I examined it closely. I felt a little angered at first, and immediately began to break it into pieces. I bit off the jewels encrusted in it looking for Rama and Sita, but nothing was there except priceless gold and jewels. Rama and Sita were stunned and their audience angry at me by my outburst. The kings who came to say goodbye demanded out of anger themselves the reason for my actions. I simply explained to them all calmly that it was an empty bracelet and that if Rama and Sita were not in the bracelet that I did not want it.” As Hanuman explained this part of the story, he pulled out the bracelet with perfectly cut jewels of all colors and sizes and crushed it in his hands into dust. “See, no Rama or Sita.”

“One of the great kings spoke up and asked me why I acted the way I did and I just calmly explained that I could not accept something as plain as jewelry. He began to question why I existed, because once Rama and Sita left they would be gone. I could not explain the reason with words, so instead I showed them my heart.” With that, I opened my chest and showed them my heart and in it sat Rama and his wife Sita." Hanuman opened his chest to everyone there so they could also see Rama and Sita. He then closed it back and continued his speech as his audience were awed by the spectacle.

"Even after their death I knew that I had to remain strong for my own health, and the health of the people who believed in me. I am thousands upon thousands of years old, and the only reason I am this old and have not left to join Rama is because Rama still lives today and provides me the reason to keep on living. He lives in my heart and that is all that matters to me. So once every single one of you have found that one special thing that makes you tick, never let go of it even if it has physically gone away. God bless you all!" Hanuman then quietly walked himself out of the retirement home, grew to the size of a mountain and once again took another giant leap, but this time it was to go back home.