The Girl Who Freed Stones

A small Kindergarten girl who really enjoyed going to school had a strange habit. It might have been a strange habit to some people, but to her she was just saving the world and making a difference. Making a difference was really important to her at that age for she wanted the world to be a better and happier place.

While her peers were collecting spiders, ants and other gruesome creatures, she would collect stones. Little stones.  Big stones. Round stones. Odd – shaped stones. White stones. Gray stones. Any kind of stones. It did not matter the shape, color or size; she would pick up any stone she could find on her breaks at school or on the way home. The minute she reached her home she would set them free wish them a long beautiful life.

Stones to her were living beings and they deserved a better place; which just so happened to be her backyard. It was colorful filled with flowers and had a comforting lawn where she was sure her stone friends would be happier. However, deep down inside she feared that she would get caught. Because, in her mind, she was stealing from school but if she put the stones in her yard it would be all right due to the fact that she was placing them in a more pleasant environment.

One Monday morning when she arrived at school, she was told that they would be going on a field trip to a petting zoo nearby. All the kids were excited and so was she for she was certain to save many stones on that day.

As soon as she got off the bus she saw a big wonderfully brownish, yellowish almost square stone. She picked it up carefully and placed it into her backpack. She was ecstatic for this was the day that she would free the most stones ever. The petting zoo was a place for the animals and not stones. The visitors just kicked the stones around and it really must have hurt them was what she thought.

 As the day went by, her backpack kept getting heavier and heavier. She started to worry about not being able to save that many stones because of the weight of her backpack. She was not such a big girl after all. Being so tired from carrying all those stones all day long, she fell asleep on the bus on her way back to school. Her mother was there waiting for her and eager to hear all about the field trip.

When her mother picked up her backpack, she let it drop. The little girl screamed. The mother turned to her little girl and simply asked: what do you have in your backpack, honey? Stones?

( Written: April 1, 2015 ) Todos os direitos reservados a Meire Marion.

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