ME and the UGLY ROCK!!!
One sad sad day I was given a very large and very heavy, ugly and jagged rock. It had a small inscription on it " You Will Carry Me With You Forever" I had to carry this rock with me every where I went....some days it was so heavy it dragged me down but I continued to carry the rock... I walked many journeys carrying the rock and some days it would feel like I couldn't take another step...so i would sit at the waters edge just to rest up... Then one day I decided that I didn't want to carry the rock Anymore...It was a heavy, sharp and Ugly thing and I just wanted it gone so I threw it into the water and the splash it made was huge...like an explosion... I went to bed so relieved that the rock was finally gone ... When I woke the following day I was devastated to find My ugly rock was back with me and I wondered how I was going to carry it again...I was so angry.. so disappointed and so hurt that this ugly rock was back with me.. I decided to go back to the waters edge and threw that ugly rock straight back into the water... the splash was huge once again.. When I woke the following day again my ugly rock was back and the devastion and the hurt came as before.. I continued to do the same thing every day for weeks on end..id wake see the rock was back and take it straight to the waters edge and throw it in hoping to never see it again...this seemed to be a never ending cycle...wake up...go to the water...throw the rock...wake up go to the water..throw the rock and see the huge splash until one day i noticed the splash didnt look so big..it looked smaller some how.. the next morning when I woke the rock was back but it seemed to look different...I couldn't make out what was different but I knew it looked different some how. I held the rock and decided to Again take it to the waters edge and throw it in...and the never ending cycle continued for weeks and weeks...but every time I threw the rock into the water the splash would look smaller some how I realised this cycle was now part of my daily routine ...every day I'd wake the rock was there with me...and every day I'd look at the rock and notice it didnt look so sharp and ugly anymore...it was starting to get smoother in places and some of its jagged sides weren't so sharp... I wake now and look for my rock every morning and I realise that although I will forever have to carry it with me... in time it will become a beautiful pebble...and the splash, as much as it will always happen....won't be so big!! Written by Ella Diamond 2021
One sad sad day I was given a very large and very heavy, ugly and jagged rock. It had a small inscription on it " You Will Carry Me With You Forever" I had to carry this rock with me every where I went....some days it was so heavy it dragged me down but I continued to carry the rock... I walked many journeys carrying the rock and some days it would feel like I couldn't take another step...so i would sit at the waters edge just to rest up... Then one day I decided that I didn't want to carry the rock Anymore...It was a heavy, sharp and Ugly thing and I just wanted it gone so I threw it into the water and the splash it made was huge...like an explosion... I went to bed so relieved that the rock was finally gone ... When I woke the following day I was devastated to find My ugly rock was back with me and I wondered how I was going to carry it again...I was so angry.. so disappointed and so hurt that this ugly rock was back with me.. I decided to go back to the waters edge and threw that ugly rock straight back into the water... the splash was huge once again.. When I woke the following day again my ugly rock was back and the devastion and the hurt came as before.. I continued to do the same thing every day for weeks on end..id wake see the rock was back and take it straight to the waters edge and throw it in hoping to never see it again...this seemed to be a never ending cycle...wake up...go to the water...throw the rock...wake up go to the water..throw the rock and see the huge splash until one day i noticed the splash didnt look so big..it looked smaller some how.. the next morning when I woke the rock was back but it seemed to look different...I couldn't make out what was different but I knew it looked different some how. I held the rock and decided to Again take it to the waters edge and throw it in...and the never ending cycle continued for weeks and weeks...but every time I threw the rock into the water the splash would look smaller some how I realised this cycle was now part of my daily routine ...every day I'd wake the rock was there with me...and every day I'd look at the rock and notice it didnt look so sharp and ugly anymore...it was starting to get smoother in places and some of its jagged sides weren't so sharp... I wake now and look for my rock every morning and I realise that although I will forever have to carry it with me... in time it will become a beautiful pebble...and the splash, as much as it will always happen....won't be so big!! Written by Ella Diamond 2021
