In case you
haven’t seen this short on Caine’s Arcade, check it out:
Stories like
this are incredible. Because of the thousands of people who cheered on Caine
through Facebook. And the few dozen people who showed up and played the games
at his arcade. And the dad who gave Caine the space, freedom, and resources to
build his enterprise. And especially Nirvan Mullick who had the vision to see
how wonderful this work of a nine-year-old was and put in the work to share it
with everyone.
The world
needs stories like this. It’s not going to solve everybody’s problems. Caine
isn’t going to suddenly be the savior of mankind with his cardboard creations.
His games aren’t going to fix everything that’s broken in the world. But it is
important, extremely important. Stories like this remind us that despite our
conflicts and heartaches and horrors and wars and bankruptcies and crime and
yadda, yadda, yadda, we are all people who need each other. Caine needed people
to come to his arcade to validate his hard work. The people needed to come so
they could experience an arcade from a kid’s perspective, and in doing so become
kids themselves. And for folks like me who live across the country from Caine,
I need stories like this to bring a little glimmer of hope that there just may
be some humanity left in people and we’re not all just a bunch of robots
cranking through our days.
So if you get
anything out of this story of Caine’s Arcade, get this: opening your heart and
your time to other people pays off, at times far more than you’d ever imagine.
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