You see the whole country of the system is juxtapositioned by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity.
There there, this ain't me, for all you know, that is Anthony Gonsalves! And the over complicated verbose is in prep for the utterly juvenile fantasy ride ahead! Now, what do you prefer with your ride? A magic wand? Ironman's arc reactor? A rabbit hole? Here we go!
Once there was a sapling, tender and young, bursting out of the shells of a seed, hiding way below the layers of the soil. "Ugh, what a pushing nudge it was!", the tiny leaf said breathing heavily in the spring air, squinting a bit, almost blinded by the light around.
"Disgusting lazy bum", said an irritated voice just below the leaf.
"Eh?Who's that?", squeaked the leaf.
"It's me, shoot! Can't you see I'm holding you, moron!", said the tiny shoot bending to face the leaf at an angle."Ever since there was an announcement about your arrival and we'd seen no sign of you whatsoever, I knew all this rigorous planning will just go to waste. Now, if you've got some time, your majesty, can you please prepare some food, our food stock is almost depleted and I can't feed you anymore."
"A for 1, I won't take that bossy tone, ya know, I ain't anybody's slave here. I am an independent leaf", the leaf barked.
"Awww, you are cuter than I had imagined!",a voice chuckled from further down,"An independent leaf is a dead leaf pal!"
"Freakin maniacs just killing me!", exclaimed the leaf,"will ya'll just let me enjoy the nice surrounding a bit?Who's this now?"
"Look dear, I am the root, I pretty much know all about you grim-face but I can't agree with shoot more that if you still continue with your merry go round blab, we ain't gonna survive longer."
The leaf, turning its face looked around and said solemnly, "As much educated you are in the dealings of this world, so am I. There seem to be many others around, I'd like to hear other versions of the story and validate your version before I take a plunge of faith and start my factories to generate food for you. How do I know you'd deal with my resources righteously? And how do I know that I'd secure myself a pension after I'd toiled day in and day out for your sake?"
The shoot and the root as furious as they were, didn't find another answer to retort back.
So, the leaf heard from the Federation of the Extraordinary Pines, the Republic of Ancient Banyans, the Conglomeration of the Magnificent Palms,why even from the Association of the United Cactus!
But behold, every one had a different version of the story! The leaf was utterly confused and disappointed.
Each story was distinct, although they had great resemblances but every kind of leaf was different. In some occasions, others have even usurped the leaves' factories for the food making business for themselves, like in the cactus, the shoot owned the factories!!
"Preposterous!!", the leaf thought, "I will never let this happen to me. No one's ever taking away my estates, my freedom, my life, my green, my love..."
As the leaf gasped in the excitement of this new found strength, a weak voice trembled from below,"Are you back from your thoughts yet? I think am gonna give up now, I don't have anymore strength to..", and the shoot collapsed on the soil.
With its face on the dry soil, the now brown leaf was completely exasperated, "this is unthinkable, a hugely staged conspiracy! I must turn around at once! I..I..", and it collapsed too.
"Zwooop", sounded a droplet on the leaf. There was a humming voice seemingly distant but it grew near, as if just beside it, the leaf thought. It was Mother Earth, singing just before the rain. And swooping the rains arrived!
After a long time, as the leaf opened its eyes to the warm sunlight, feeling a rush of the stream in its veins, it remembered from the half dream all it heard when the Mother Earth sang before the rains.
It was how she is soaked with the love of the rains and how the root finds that love and draws it in. And how the shoot drinks the love from the root and then streams that love in the leaf and then the leaf in turn calls the rains!! That was the most swelling part of the song!
But even sweller than that was the fact that in the beginning of it all, the seed agreed to go deep into the pits of soil and decided to die, to become a sapling first and then a tree full of seeds!!And that's what happens for every kind of tree on the earth, no matter how different their story seems! It all made sense now.
Sacrifice. And a new birth is always about that. It's not the only way, it's so because it's the most full proof way to ensure the new birth.
And yet, on a gloomy evening, when a man carried a tree on his shoulders, walking towards a hill to knowingly die a brutal death for love, it didn't make sense coz every one wants to live.
And when that man dripped every single drop of his blood and before breathing his last, shouted, "It is finished!", it didn't make sense coz no one knew of the journey he had begun.
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