One day, a little girl skipped into her family’s garden, carrying a packet of seeds. She tore it open and pushed the little seeds in the earth. Plop. Plop. Plop.

One of the little seeds realized he was now alone. He was scared. He didn’t know what had happened. He thought this was the end. He thought he was going to slowly die, buried alive.

Days passed – some sunny and some rainy, but he could only feel darkness.

Then, just when the despair was almost more than he could bear, he broke open. This new raw pain was even more excruciating. He was being forced to change. He didn’t understand what was happening and just wanted it all to end.

He continued being pushed by some unseen force, and he grew. He was still alone. He was still confused. And it was still dark.

Then one day, he broke through the surface, and the light drew him to itself. He did not know that the light had been calling him all along. It was bright. He began to see. But he still did not understand.

He caught glimpses of the little girl at play. He remembered her voice. But she did not see him. He continued to grow and change, not knowing why he was alive. He began to see outside himself and could see others, like him, reaching for the sun. Leaning to the east in the morning, to the west every evening and silently meditating at night.

Then, at the end of the season, the young girl bounded into the garden. She expressed delight, and said, “What a lovely little flower!” She reached down, picked the flower, and gently placed it in her basket where it lay nestled with the most beautiful flowers imaginable.

She happily drove away with her family to a peaceful place where they joined other people who were excitedly celebrating. The event was clearly very important and very joyous. He overheard her name – Flower Girl.

And as he watched and smiled with the others, he realized he had been chosen to be a special part of something bigger. A most beautiful little flower in a most beautiful love story. And he was grateful to have lived. And thankful to know why he had been created. And it was worth it. And he was worth it. And it was beautiful.

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