A Little Story

Once upon a time on a little planet in the Kingdom there was a little girl playing outside, running barefoot through gently sloping hillsides of flowers, capturing butterflies in her hands and then releasing them.  She delighted in how they seemed to dance through the air, and how when she held them they would let her stroke their bodies as their wings lightly pulsed up and down.  Releasing an iridescent green butterfly, she glimpsed a large butterfly with bright orange and royal blue markings wafting towards her, its wings flapping and from them came a sweet melody with a pleasant humming sound.  It paused to look at the little girl, and then moved away from her and the little girl followed, running across the meadow to catch up with the creature.  When she got close enough to jump, she went sailing up into the air high above the tallest flowers and eye level with the treetops where she was able to cradle the elegant butterfly in her soft palms, reveling in delight as the winged wonder seemed to hum the way a cat would purr.  She glided back down with her eyes aglow, and just before reaching the ground she let the butterfly go to continue its dance.

When her left foot landed on the ground, she felt the most bizarre sensation on her big toe.  She was very confused as she had never felt something like it before.  It……   Was there a word?  It didn’t feel good.  The little girl sat down and looked at the underside of her toe, seeing that her perfect skin had been scratched and there was a red fluid coming out.  The sensation was completely alien to her as were these emotions she had never felt before, and she only knew that she did not like it.  She felt her eyes changing, like they were becoming wet, and just then, she heard a comforting song and she witnessed hundreds of her family coming towards her from all directions.  Animals came along with them, and even the plants seemed to lean towards her.  Each and every one had heard the call of one of their own in need, and in that moment they knew there was only one thing to do, which was to comfort and heal the little girl.  They surrounded her before her first tear could fall, and the strange sensation was gone, never to be felt by her or anyone else ever again.

Gaia is that little girl.

Here is a track to relax to, entitled ‘Elemental’: