The young man walked out into the thicket behind his house.
He fathomed himself a masterful gardener and decided that he would
take this unsightly area and develop it into a garden that would
enhance his property and give some beauty to those who happened
to walk this way. As he was about to begin to clear away the brush
and unsightly debris he was taken back by the many different aspect
of nature which seemed to be screaming that they had something
they were about to say. As he began his small journey to change
his immediate world little did he realize that it was he that
was going to change and grow. The beauty that would be added would
not be in the garden but deep within his own life. The value of
his life would change greatly as he began to listen to what each
of the attributes of nature had to say. He noticed that the very
soil he was standing on was very sandy and that the sand itself
was trying to speak. He saw a small thorny plant that made him
shiver as it cried out about the beauty that it had within. He
noticed a drop of water on a blade of grass and was entranced
by the sounds that it was trying to make. As he picked up a pebble
he could feel its message as he tried to toss it out of his way.
The tree that he leaned against began to echo loudly that it should
be the first to speak of the lessons that nature had to share.
As the light struck his face and he was blinded by its intensity
he could feel it's message of hope and the weed he tried to kick
out of his way vibrated with a roar of you had better listen to
me. As he slipped slowly to ground to try and fathom what was
happening to him, his attention was drawn to the leaf that slowly
floated to the ground and as it touch his hand he could feel it
whisper of it importance in life. As the seed pod floated by he
realized that it had a massage to which he need to listen. His
life was about to change, and he would never be the same again,
but even more important neither would this little thicket behind
his home. He sat upon a mound of grass which vibrated with a chant
of give me a chance. He leaned back against the tree and placed
his head in his hands to try and understand what was happening
to him. As he began to meditate on his surroundings he felt himself
slip into a state of sleep and began to dream that each and every
thing about him had a soul of its very own with truth to speak
and hope to add to mankind if he would only look beyond himself.
He was about to begin a journey that would touch his very soul
and he would never see anything quite the same again.
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