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Jani Norman — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 22:27:05 GMT

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

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rdgrnr — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:51:20 GMT

Thanks.

Original Blog Entry: the dragonfly

hearsetrax — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:15:20 GMT

Once, in a little pond, in the muddy water under

the lily pads,

there lived a little water beetle in a community of

water

beetles. They lived a simple and comfortable life in the pond

with

few disturbances and interruptions.

Once in a while, sadness would come to the community when one of

their fellow beetles would climb the stem of a

lily pad and

would never be seen again. They knew when this happened;

their

friend was dead, gone forever.

Then, one day, one little water

beetle felt an irresistible urge

to climb up that stem. However, he was

determined that he would

not leave forever. He would come back and tell his

friends what

he had found at the top.

When he reached the top and

climbed out of the water onto the

surface of the lily pad, he was so tired,

and the sun felt so

warm, that he decided he must take a nap. As he slept,

his body

changed and when he woke up, he had turned into a

beautiful

blue-tailed dragonfly with broad wings and a slender

body

designed for flying.

So, fly he did! And, as he soared he saw

the beauty of a whole

new world and a far superior way of life to what he had

never

known existed.

Then he remembered his beetle friends and how

they were thinking

by now he was dead. He wanted to go back to tell them,

and

explain to them that he was now more alive than he had ever

been

before. His life had been fulfilled rather than ended.

But, his

new body would not go down into the water. He could

not get back to tell his

friends the good news. Then he

understood that their time would come, when

they, too, would

know what he now knew. So, he raised his wings and flew

off

into his joyous new life!

~Author Unknown~

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