Letting your roots grow...

There is this plant. She is a strong and good plant. Her roots are firm in the soil around her. Sometimes the weather is really bad and it takes a toll on her but she is strong and she stands her ground and stands up tall.

One day she has a seed and she plants the seed close to her. She nurtures the seed as the seed grows to a baby plant. She waters the seed and she shelters the plant from all the bad weather and animals that want to hurt him. She protects that seed like the world depended on it. Sometimes that the baby plant is mean to her but he always loves her, he just never tells her enough.

Soon the baby plant is not a baby anymore. He isn't a big plant yet but with the love of the mother plant he is getting there. But his roots are getting cramped. There isn't enough room in the soil for him. There isn't enough water. There isn't enough sunlight.

One day he gets an opportunity to move to another plot of soil. This plot of soil is far from his mother but this plot of soil is full of nutrients he needs and the sun shines down on it brightly. So he moves to this new plot of soil and he plants his roots deep into the ground.

But his mom is sad. She misses him dearly. She is always calling him and wanting to talk to him so he talks to her. But sometimes she needs to see him so she asks him to come visit her and he does. All he wants to do his make his mother happy, for after all, without her, he is nothing.

Well time passes and eventually she wilts away and dies. Nothing bad happened, she was just an old plant. But she died happy. Her son loved her and talked to her and spent all his time with her and that made her happy. And she knew that he, her son would be able to take care of himself and that he would one day have a baby plant of his own. She had high hopes for her son and that is why she died happy.

But what she doesn't know is that he, her son, died shortly after she died. You see, that baby plant only had two things keeping him alive. One of them were his roots which were in the soil. But, because he always had to un-root himself whenever he went to go visit her, his roots were not rooted very deeply. And instead of spending his energy collecting water, so he could grow, when it rained, because it rained so rarely, he spent his time talking to her and making her happy. So his roots were not deep enough to collect the nutrients he needed and he didn't have enough water to make him grow.

The other thing keeping him alive was his mother. See, he wasn't collecting nutrients and water from the ground, but he had his mother and her love and that is all he needed to grow and be strong and stay alive, even when he wasn't around her. But, when his mother died, he lost the one thing keeping him alive. He lost his only reason to live, so he too, quietly passed away. And that is how this story ends.