(the story is told by a 14 year old girl from Bikini Atoll)
I always imagined people as grains of sand scattered on the beach.
Each grain of sand is like one human being.
Once we were together in the sea and were water particles. United as One. But one day we became crystalized and water decided to throw us on the land. And we became separated, left alone dispersed.
Once separated we felt incomplete and were pushed from our inside to find a reason to live. Scattered on the beach we started to meet different people in our life. We crashed with one another-exchanging thoughts, ideas and feelings.
And either we continued to stick together or we got separated and followed another sandy dune. But always we were forced to encounter foreign grains.
But we are still here, beside the great water. We are sometimes flushed by salty ocean and feel bitterness, sometimes a huge foot crushes us and a heavy burden lands in our heart. But sometimes there is warmness coming from the Sun. In this moment we feel motivated to live, have our aims put forward clearly and then we know which path to follow. On these days everything is so simple, so beautiful. We are willing to live.
But the time on the beach runs out and one day we have to say farewell to our grain colleagues. We become so attached to them that we are happy to have them beside us, sometimes we become so unattached from them that we are sad and wish to have more time to meet more human grains.
Both ways we start to cry and crying we again unite. The tears are salty and one drop merges with another, going slowly down the land, and falling into the sea.
We are again united and we feel complete.
I always imagined people as grains of sand scattered on the beach.
Each grain of sand is like one human being.
Once we were together in the sea and were water particles. United as One. But one day we became crystalized and water decided to throw us on the land. And we became separated, left alone dispersed.
Once separated we felt incomplete and were pushed from our inside to find a reason to live. Scattered on the beach we started to meet different people in our life. We crashed with one another-exchanging thoughts, ideas and feelings.
And either we continued to stick together or we got separated and followed another sandy dune. But always we were forced to encounter foreign grains.
But we are still here, beside the great water. We are sometimes flushed by salty ocean and feel bitterness, sometimes a huge foot crushes us and a heavy burden lands in our heart. But sometimes there is warmness coming from the Sun. In this moment we feel motivated to live, have our aims put forward clearly and then we know which path to follow. On these days everything is so simple, so beautiful. We are willing to live.
But the time on the beach runs out and one day we have to say farewell to our grain colleagues. We become so attached to them that we are happy to have them beside us, sometimes we become so unattached from them that we are sad and wish to have more time to meet more human grains.
Both ways we start to cry and crying we again unite. The tears are salty and one drop merges with another, going slowly down the land, and falling into the sea.
We are again united and we feel complete.
Congrats! I loved to read this.
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