DEP Photo Column — When Nature Feeds — Prompt 2
Imagine a world where humans feed each other with just love and kindness!
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What Do You See When You Look At Me?
Entering the living room, Anna put her bag and laptop case by the door after closing it and dragged herself to the sofa, where her mom sat, listening to the news.
Mrs. Joyce Hylton muted David Muir, then turned to give her daughter all her attention.
“I don’t like my job right now,” Anna complained plopping down beside her mother, using her foot to remove her four-inch black Jimmy Choo modern pumps. She then twirled her toes which were covered by off-black stockings.
Mrs. Hylton nodded, reached out caressed her daughter’s left hand, and asked, “I thought you were happy there.”
“I am happy, I just don’t like the environment and location,” she took off her clip-on earrings and other jewelry.
“What!” her mom asked, her upper body easing backward.
“I am just not happy there anymore,” Anna complained.
“You have your dream job, with your dream salary and health care package, plus everyone except the CEO has to answer to you and you are worried about your location and environment?” her mother asked with furled brows of confusion.
“Mom, you don’t understand,” she rants.
“Then make me understand!”
Anna sighed in deep thought then said, “I want to be around people that make me happy. People that show gratitude for life and living.”
“So, if they were happy, then the location would be ok?”
“Gosh, Mom,” she called out. “Happiness lights up a dark room. Maybe.”
“Follow me,” her mom instructed, indicating with her left index finger.
“Ah Mom, do I have to,” Anna moaned.
“Yes!” she demands.
Anna grabbed her sandals out of the closet facing the foot of the stairs and followed her mom. She led her daughter to a nearby Art Center, beside the park two blocks North. Then, it took her to the back where the generator was.
Points, then said, “Look at that flower. Isn’t it beautiful?”
“Really Mom?”
“Look around you?” her mother suggested.
Anna glanced around, left, then right. Seeing nothing else alive, she then circled behind the generator. Stared at the flower for a while then said, reaching out to touch it, “How did it manage to grow and survive here?”
“Come on,” her mother took her to several other places around the Art Center.
“How did this plant manage to grow here?
“Why would flowers try to grow here?”
“Who feeds this plant?”
“I would refuse to grow here.”
“No way am I going to blossom here.”
“This one is torture,” she said.
“Why?” her mom asked.
“This plant looks sick mom.”
“Now, this, I understand. But still, who feeds these plants, Mom?”
“Some of us are at a place where we thrive when no one else is or can. Just being there around others who are struggling, we should encourage, strengthen, motivate, give smiles, and bring joy while learning and growing. We should use our presence to ignite positive emotions that help others get through the day. I saw your smile when you looked and wondered how these beautiful flowers can survive here when only nature feeds them.”
Anna’s smile expanded, and then she shared, “Oh Mom, you are right. Nature feeds them. I am that flower, I don’t need them, they need me.”
“Yes honey,” her mom soothes. “Be the light happiness needs to get out of the darkness. Be the smile that yellow bell flower growing out of the rock gives to everyone who passes by. Be the miracle that the flower growing from the white and brown wall shares, because those flowers being alive, are a miracle. Be the hope that the flower growing out of the rock shows. Be the life humans get through carbon dioxide from these plants. Go back to work tomorrow and feed your environment with kindness, love, understanding, patience, and gentleness like nature feeds these plants!”
Tears reeling down, Anna hugged her mom and said, “You are amazing. Imagine a world where humans feed each other with love and kindness, like nature feeds these plants!”
“Don’t imagine it! Do it!”
I am a walk-a-ton, and I am always amazed at how some of these plants manage to survive and grow to flourish and blossom in these arid and hostile environments where only nature feeds them. Humans need more than nature to feed us. We need each other like plants need nature.
Imagine a world where humans feed each other with kindness and love, like nature, feeds these plants. — Annelise Lords
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Guidelines.
Nature is alive and we see it in plants. Each plant represents something different to all of us. Nature feeds all of humanity. But humans need more than food and water.
Be creative, and innovative, remove the limits and boundaries from your imagination, and use your images to show our world how we can feed humanity with positivity like nature feeds plants.
There is no limit here.
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