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Oct 14
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NiñaEstrella

A fable

An old woman and a young girl stood by the seashore. The sea was raging, large waves leaping onto the sand and gobbling back into the water in a curl of cackles. The old woman shivered. The girl opened her arms and embraced the breeze.
"I want to go in!" said the girl.
"It is too cold," said the woman. 
"I don't mind. I want to go in!"
"You will get wet. You are not dressed for swimming."
"I will go naked if I must."
"No."
"I have to!"
"Why?"
The girl pondered it for some time. Then she ran straight into the water.
"Why!" yelled the old woman, clutching her arms on the shore.
"I don't know!" The girl plunged through the waves, laughing, shouting. Irresistibly, deliriously, happy.

The moral of the story: Don't question the why. Live in the moment.

 
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Posted: 10.14.20
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  1. Yellow Sweater
    Oct 14, 2020

    This is lovely. I particularity like. "The girl plunged through the waves, laughing shouting. Irresistibly, deliriously, happy" A glorious cacophony of gerunds and adverbs!

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  1. NiñaEstrella
    Oct 14, 2020

    Thanks! :)

    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde

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  1. RainbowAura
    Oct 18, 2020

    One word: WOW.

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