FLOWER - short story

Katarzyna Nowocin-Kowalczyk
Apr 17, 2024
3 min read

Updated: Oct 28, 2024

May 7th, 2022

story from the book: NOT EVERYTHING IS LIKE IT SEEMS Life-written Fairy Tales for Adults

by Katarzyna Nowocin-Kowalczyk

When everything around looks the same, attention is attracted by what is different. Otherness attracts otherness. With its beauty. Color. Courage. Freedom. Intrigues. Makes curious. Otherness teaches. Otherness shows the way. It evokes emotions. Otherness says, "Stop. Look in my direction. It is not worth rushing after the crowd. It is not worth looking where the crowd is looking. It is not worth shouting what the crowd shouts. It is not worth mindlessly repeating after the crowd.

“It is worth being yourself. It is worth listening to the heart. It is worth looking with the heart. It is worth trusting yourself. It is worth being a color. The whole color palette. It is worth being a color painter of your own life. It is worth choosing a color instead of a gray crowd and a gray world of fear. It is worth being free. It is worth being different.

“Because the one who trusts himself, the one who befriended himself, the one who is really free, is never lonely. Although apparently, from the level of a gray crowd, he looks different.

“The one who is really free probably goes his own way and knows where he is going. He is not afraid of chaos, wind and storms of this world. A truly free human being walks with trust, confidence and courage. And each step is marked with love. Because love is freedom. Love is Otherness in the gray world of fear.”

Fear is a world of obedient, frightened, shouting and fighting among themselves nonentities. A world of stereotypes. A world of inverted values and hypocritical words. A world of war. A world of divisions. A world of control. Matrix.

The world of fear does not like otherness. The world of fear is afraid of otherness. The world of fear tries to trample free, colorful flowers, although it looks at them with curiosity and misses them secretly. In the world of fear, Love is Otherness.

And Love is silence that speaks. Love is a flower. Love is Nature. Love is the earth. Love is water. Love is heaven. Love is air. Love is the Universe. Love is another human being and every other being. Love is You.

Love is a world of beautiful, colorful and free flowers. People are flowers. Only some have forgotten about it. And they have become weeds that suffocate others for their color, freedom and otherness.

Love does not divide. Love does not exclude. Love is not afraid of Otherness. Love accepts and welcomes otherness with open arms. It invites and whispers quietly into your heart,

“I am here. I'm waiting for you. Wake up. Stand up. Come. Remember who you are. Remind yourself that you are a beautiful colorful flower that has only been lost in the gray crowd of fear. I am in You. I am You. You just forgot to water me. You have forgotten to cultivate the flower of Love within you.”

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