FRO 14 LC06

I have been wrapped by the quicksand and wandering around for years. The quicksand does not drown me; it just reminds me that instead of being relaying on it, I have no other choice; otherwise I will be blown away. It declared that it is my root. Therefore, I spend many years of youth, and was wrapped to the east and west senselessly.

Until a week ago, when I faced quicksand, I said, “let the wind take me.”

Quicksand said, “you lose your root, you die immediately.”

I said, “I saved enough water, so I can be alive for a while.”

Quicksand said, “but the wind will keep you in the air endlessly. You will die because of the lack of water.”

I said, ” rain is going to help me.”

Quicksand said, ” The rain only works for you when it drops into the pool. When it is in the air, basically, it is just a decoration.”

I said, “I would fall into the pool.”

Quicksand said, “and you’re drowned.”

I said, “let me try it.”

Quicksand said, “Before you do that, why do not you let me put you on a small sand hill, so you can look down from there; then you can find out how many plants like you depend on me.”

I said, “Why do not you lift me high enough to see the whole plants on the earth? Therefore I can find out where or not those plants have the same lives as mine.”

Quicksand said, “how dare you are! could resist me? I will destroy you!!”

I say, “Before you do that, I will ask the wind to take me.”

So I tried as hard as I could to struggle to leave. Well, actually, it was not that hard to get rid of the quicksand. I left the sand, and when I looked down to my feet…”What the heck?! I have feet, and, originally I was not a plant, I was an animal. These people lied to me for twenty years!” As an animal with legs, I can finally decide my fate. I looked at quicksand, it said, “go away, but do not you tell the other plants that in fact they are animals.”

Always ask yourself, what if you are right and they are wrong? Do not go with the flow. Show you individuality and try not to be blend in.

It is a story I have read long time ago.

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